FEMME FATALE

Alexis’ graduate recital from the Bard College Conservatory was based off of the femme fatale and explored the experiences of innocence, growth, vulnerability, betrayal, revenge and the process of healing through the lens of the femme fatale. Below is the description she used for the project.

A femme fatale (literally "fatal woman"), sometimes called a man-eater or vamp, is a mystic character that is a beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms trap her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly circumstances. An archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. Femmes fatales are typically villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification, and unease. 

This projects tracks the course of the making of a femme fatale through a non-linear fashion: Innocence, Growing Up, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge and the process of Healing.