Pictured above: Megan Brian in ridetherhythm (2014)
PERFORMANCE Works
Partial View (2024)
A long form improvised duet featuring Rosemary Hannon and Belinda He, part of Bridge Live Arts’ “Experiments in Motion,” in collaboration with Cherie Hill and Rebecca Fitton.
Intertwine (2024)
A collaboration with Lightfast at the de Rosa Center for Contemporary Art.
On Agency (2024)
A feminist performance lecture in conversation with Mohr’s textile art using Judith Butler’s “The Psychic Life of Power” to explore conundrums of family, marriage, and queerness. Presented by California College of the Arts Visual & Critical Studies.
Float the mark (2023)
A long form improvised duet in response with Ranu Mukherjee’s dance floor drawing, this is a map of a mine in a forest/this is a drawing/this is a dance floor/this is a question/this is an invitation (2023), Karin pigment markers on marley 20 x 21 feet (detail), part of an exhibit at the Mills Arts Museum. Featuring Jay Carlon and Johnny Nguyen.
Intimité Révélée (2024)
Co-choreographed in collaboration with choreographers Lorris Eichinger and Olivia Evans and filmmaker Natasha Adorlee, this dance film explores queer intimacy. Selected for the S.F. Dance Film Festival.
Horizon Stanzas (2023)
An immersive feminist epic inspired by Alice Notley’s poem, The Descent of Alette.
Original cast: Suzette Sagisi, Tegan Schwab-Alavi, and Belinda He.
Premiered at the Joe Goode Annex April 2023.
Nancy (2022)
Choreography for staged version of Maxe Crandall’s The Nancy Reagan Collection, performed at The Poetry Project, New York City, September 16, 2022.
Terraqueous (2022) (film)
Collaboration with sculptor Danae Mattes, filmmaker Lindsay Gauthier, and dancers Jane Selna, Belinda He, and Karla Quintero, this art film is a richly textured exploration of bodies in contact with Mattes’ evaporation pools.
Ensemble for Nonlinear Time (2022)
Collaboration with visual artist Ranu Mukherjee, developed and presented through artist residency at 836M Gallery in San Francisco.
A social practice project that responds to rupture with the imagination. A collaboration with visual artist Ranu Mukherjee that comes out of two years of embodied storytelling workshops for immigrant and refugee artists.
Bacchae Before (2021)
A dance theater project co-directed by Hope Mohr (choreographer) and Maxe Crandall (playwright)
inspired by the tragedies of gender reveal parties and Anne Carson's Bakkhai. Performers: Belinda He, Wiley Naman Strasser, Karla Quintero, Silk Worm. Object animation by Mike Chin. Core creative questions: could we create a trans-centered analysis of Bakkhai, of gender reveal parties? What if we warp the gender reveal party into a ritual for the trans kids we love and want futures for? How can we use creative celebration to undermine the trope of “reveal”?
Before Bacchae Before (2021)
A film commissioned and presented by ODC Theater June 5, 2021. Selected for the S.F. Transgender Film Festival.
Ode (to forgotten bodies) (2019)
An exploration of the ancestral rhythms we keep in our bodies. Co-created with Belinda He, Natalya Shoaf, Jane Selna, and Karla Quintero. Collaborators: Dana Kawano (costumes) and Danae Mattes (sculpture). Scheduled to premiere in February 2020, this dance never happened in full. Because COVID. But we still created it together.
Leaving the Atocha Station (2019)
Inspired by the Ben Lerner novel
Presented at Southern Exposure (San Francisco) and Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles)
Stay with me (2018)
Commissioned by Peiling Kao
Premiere in Honolulu, Hawaii
December 7 & 8, 2018
The Exception to the Diagram (2018)
A collaboration with visual artist Matthew Ritchie
Presented by the Moody Center for the Arts
October 27, 2018
Succession (2018)
A collaboration with painter Ranu Mukherjee
Presented by the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
October 13, 2018
extreme lyric I (2018)
Inspired by and based on Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho
Co-presented by ODC Theater
October 4-6, 2018
Femsplay (2017)
Presented by S.F. Trolley Dances/Epiphany Productions
Circus Center, San Francisco
October 20-22, 2017
Sanctuary (2017)
A collaboration with painter Ranu Mukherjee
Presented as part of the Sanctuary Exhibit by the For Site Foundation
Fort Mason Chapel
January 26, 2018
Now Not Now (2017)
A collaboration with painter Ranu Mukherjee
Presented by Gallery Wendi Norris
June 29, 2017
Precarious (2017)
Inspired by the last industrial blacksmith shop in San Francisco
Co-presented by Counterpulse
June 1-3, 2017
Manifesting (2016)
Dance theater inspired by artist manifestos.
Presented by ODC Theater.
June 9-11, 2016
Stay (2015)
A response to painter Francis Bacon
Co-produced with ODC Theater as part of HMD’s home season
May 28-31, 2015
The Material of Attention (2015)
Collaboration with christian Burns
Co-produced with ODC Theater as part of HMD’s home season
May 28-31, 2015
Antigonick (2015)
Co-directed with Mark Jackson for Shotgun Players
The Slow Line (2014)
Free public performance art installation in collaboration with visual artist Tracy Taylor Grubbs.
s(oft is) hard (2014)
Solo for Peiling Kao.
each repetition a difference (2014)
Commission for Conservatory of Contemporary Dance Arts
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (2014)
Investigation of improvisation in collaboration with live jazz musicians.
ridetherhythm (2014)
Collision of spoken word and deconstructed, emotionally powerful movement inspired by Anne Carson’s Antigonick and Todd Haynes’ movie Safe
Route 20 (2014)
Visceral trio exploring tension between sexual desire and romantic love
metrics of intimacy (2013)
Collaboration with Christian Burns and David Szlasa investigating performance of shared improvisational practice.
aftermath (2013)
Ensemble piece loosely inspired by Anne Carson’s Antigonick created for ODC Theater’s Theater Unplugged series.
Failure of the Sign is the Sign (2013)
Commissioned work for ODC Theater exploring the moment when we learn to speak as a transition into selfhood.
the string without the bow (2013)
Commissioned work for Lines Ballet/Dominican University BFA program to Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7 in F -Sharp Minor.
Vertex (Point of Choice) (2013)
Commissioned work for Stanford University to the music of Dohi Moon and inspired by principles of game theory.
The Missing Piece (2013)
Solo for military veteran as part of VA Hospital-sponsored festival celebrating the healing power of creativity.
Traces (2012)
Installation in collaboration with painter Tracy Taylor Grubbs exploring the intersection of visual art and the body, and the intersections between artmaking and awareness.
Reluctant Light (2012)
30-minute ensemble work to the music of Helen Money exploring states of surrender through interactions with empty rectangular forms.
Plainsong (2012)
“A fragile meditation,” this spare solo incorporates a set of red yarn by Katrina Rodabaugh and is inspired by the figure of Penelope in The Odyysey.
The Unsayable (2011)
Bringing together military veterans and dancers to explore personal stories through movement and text. Original music by Paul Haas.
Far From Perfect (2010)
Mohr’s “best work yet” (S.F. Bay Guardian). Nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award, this emotionally charged exploration of forgiveness featured poetry by Brenda Hillman, the music of William Duckworth, and design by David Szlasa.
A Fine Romance (2009)
Commissioned duet for Montalvo Arts Center Summer Gala to live jazz violin.
The Force that Drives the Flower (2009)
Evening-length re-telling of the myth of Demeter and Persephone; set by environmental designer Zakary Zide features dirt and moss with which the dancers interact. Music blends Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D and original score by Paul Fowler.
The Grief Room (2008)
Solo inspired by Trisha Brown’s Locus.
salto ergo sum (2008)
Site-specific Stanford Lively Arts Commission
Moments of Being (2008)
Quintet for men and women that weaves listening-based improvisation and classical vocabulary to a soundscape of found sound and Bach.
Under the skin (2007)
Dancers and community performers move through a tapestry of video and text exploring medical imagery of the female body. A Stanford Dance Division commission made possible through the generous support of the Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Patrick Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology.
The Language of the Listening Body (2006)
Culmination of a residency with the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance (iLAND) in collaboration with Acoustic Ecologist Michelle Nagai. Public soundwalk events in Manhattan and Long Island City with dancers and members of the general public explored listening and movement in the urban environment.
Elision (2006/2008)
An ensemble work based on the somatic experience of memory. Music: Somei Satoh
Premiere: American College Dance Festival
Made possible by the Stanford University Dance Division, Mary Edith Clifford Award for Alumni Choreography.
More awake when dreaming (2005)
A poetic physical theater piece explores identity as collapsible fiction. Through a collage of spoken word, energetic state, and inventive movement, the piece takes a wry look at the stories we tell ourselves.
Premiere: Movement Research at Judson Church, New York City
Allow me to say goodbye (2005)
Made through the use of aleatory procedures, this quintet explores themes of distance and desire through falling and receding figures. Music: Score four by Carolyn Chen, Matthew Czinger, Elizabeth Luvada Donald, Jeffrey Trevino
Premiere: Encounter:Merce, Stanford University
Made possible through a Stanford Lively Arts commission.
Point of Departure (1999)
Solo. Music: Michael Schumacher
Premiere: Merce Cunningham Studio
Kandinsky Phrases (1999)
Premiere: Merce Cunningham Studio
Sister (1994)
Premiere: ODC Theater, ODC Pilot 13