[5] At the time, since he was too young to choreograph at the student workshop there, he served as the unofficial ballet master and "the cheerleader with a notebook" for a piece by 18-year-old Lauren Lovette.

[5] After he graduated high school, he was accepted to Harvard University on full scholarship, but opted to pursue a career in dance first.

[5] In 2019, he made Songs From the Spirit, a piece about prison life that was performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in collaboration with the podcast Ear Hustle.

[1] In June 2020, Farley, who was 26, announced that he would retire from the New York City Ballet, but would continue to host "Hear the Dance" and teach at SAB when possible.

[12] He also made Collage & Creed for American Ballet Theatre, which premiered in June 2021 in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.

[13] Farley became the dean of the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute in July 2021, succeeding Jenifer Ringer.

He and composer David K. Israel were commissioned by the company to make a ballet inspired by a poem Balanchine wrote for Igor Stravinsky, who set it to a melody.