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Women contain multitudes.

Pouting cover girls aren鈥檛 just pretty faces. Feminists don鈥檛 always eschew dresses and jewelry. And women of color are scholars, CEOs and intellectuals鈥攏ot just men鈥檚 fantasy objects.

That鈥檚 what MFA candidates听听补苍诲听听want to impress upon those who attend their joint dance concert, 鈥�.鈥澨�

As the title hints, both works deal with the way women live multiple, often conflicting, truths. Wesler, for example, identifies as a feminist and also puts on a full face of makeup every day, something she鈥檚 been accused of doing to please men. And Cox, a Chicana immersed in the scholarly world of ethnic studies, has a hard time identifying with the stereotypical hypersexualized Mexican-American woman portrayed in the media.

鈥淎 parallax is this idea that truth can exist in a giant sphere, and depending on where you are in that sphere, you鈥檒l see a different thing,鈥� says Cox. 鈥淪amm and I have very different experiences; we identify with different groups. It鈥檚 about our individual perspectives on truth.鈥澨�

Cox鈥檚 piece is the culmination, she says, of a three-year investigation of her own identity as a woman of color. The four movements, which contain elements of modern, contemporary and听, explore personal and political borders, the impossible expectations placed upon women, and the ins and outs of tribe mentality.

鈥淚t鈥檚 all movement generated from the emotions the dancers and I feel about the assumptions people make about us,鈥� she says. 鈥淚t comes from a very raw, vulnerable place.鈥�

Wesler鈥檚 piece, too, is an exercise in vulnerability. As an undergraduate in tiny Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, she believed she was a model feminist鈥攂ut in recent years, she鈥檚 realized how much more she still has to learn, and she鈥檚 grappling with that through dance.

鈥淢y knowledge of feminism was so small but so groundbreaking there,鈥� she says. 鈥淭hen I moved to Boulder and realized, 鈥楨veryone鈥檚 a feminist here; this isn鈥檛 my thing anymore!鈥欌��

As she delved further into the study of feminism, she found just as many revelatory theories as she found prescriptive restrictions.

鈥淪ometimes the academia of feminism was restraining to me,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 like to embrace my femininity and sexuality, but often, feminism is telling me I can鈥檛. That doesn鈥檛 feel inclusive.鈥�

Wesler believes no one can or should conform to anyone else鈥檚 rules, because we all want to express ourselves differently. Each movement is named after a layer in the ocean, because she believes people are like the sea: 鈥淭here鈥檚 so much we know and we see, but there鈥檚 also so much hidden below that we have no idea about.鈥�

She鈥檚 plumbing the depths of her own hidden insecurities in this solo piece鈥攁ll the better to practice what she preaches.

鈥淚 had the realization that to choreograph this piece for other bodies would be a kind of cop out, that if I wasn鈥檛 doing it myself I wasn鈥檛 really facing it,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 question the choice to do a 25-minute solo in the round in my underwear every day, but there鈥檚 no turning back now!鈥�

Tickets for 鈥淧arallax鈥� start at $16.听To purchase tickets, visit the CU Presents box office in person (972 Broadway), call 303-492-8008 during business hours or听anytime. Note: All online and phone orders are subject to a service fee.听