Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth

Free to the public*
Grand Lobby

Actions and Elegies for Robert Motherwell

A series of live performances of dance and music inspired by the Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting exhibition and dedicated to the memory of Jerry Bywaters Cochran, who founded the modern dance program at TCU and was a pioneer for modern dance in the North Texas area.

17th Modern Dance Festival at The Modern
Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth in collaboration with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth presents Allana Lindgren

Motherwell and Modern Dance: Activating Creativity through Automatism

Guest lecturer Allana Lindgren (University of Victoria, BC) presents “Motherwell and Modern Dance: Activating Creativity through Automatism”
Lecture and Q&A
Museum Auditorium
Free admission*

The opening event of the 17th Modern Dance Festival at The Modern
Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth in collaboration with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Persian Lessons

Set in occupied France in 1942, Persian Lessons follows Belgian Jew, Giules, who narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he's Persian, not Jewish. While the lie temporarily saves him, he is then assigned the extraordinary task of teaching Farsi, a language he doesn't know the officer in charge of the camp's kitchen who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over.

Munch

Henrik M. Dahlsbakken's Munch brings to the big screen the life story of one of the world's most significant modern painters, Edvard Munch. Misunderstood by his peers, rejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his younger sister and tortured by addiction, the film portrays Munch's life, painting an intimate and nuanced picture of the artist and his work across four chapters. 

Members’ Preview Party for Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: PURE PAINTING
Members' Preview Party

June 3, 6–8 pm
Director’s Council members are invited to a private, curator-led exhibition tour at 5:15 pm.

Members at the Associate level and above are invited to celebrate the opening of Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting at this after-hours event featuring exclusive access to the new exhibition, live entertainment, beer, wine, and light bites.