"Emotional and socio-political contents ride underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary"
— DanceViewTimes
“As always in Mohr’s pieces, there is a sense of improvisation, fluidity, and ephemerality.”
— Piedmont Post
"Insistently inventive" — East Bay Times
COMING UP
score for transitional times
January 6-10, 2025
Moody Center for the Arts, Houston
Kicking off a season of art at the Moody Center for the Arts featuring artistic responses to the climate crisis, score for transitional times is a performance installation and a collaboration between multidisciplinary artists Hope Mohr and Ranu Mukherjee featuring an international ensemble of four dancers: Kayla Collymore, Donna Crump, Suzette Sagisi, and Tegan Schwab-Alavi.
Approaching this era of energy transition from a place of environmental and cultural consciousness, score for transitional times features a scene, or tableau vivant, coalescing and falling apart according to different time signatures.
The dancers repeatedly enact this scene, which draws from lineages of resource extraction, according to visual scores by Mohr and Mukherjee. These visual scores, hybrid forms on muslin that combine drawing and sculpture, hang in the space on moveable screens to become part of the choreography. Working with the intersections of internal, industrial and ancestral time frames, the scores prompt performers to explore layered expressions of tempo and rhythm.
score for transitional times asks:
How can the wisdom of the body inform dialogue around sustainable futures?
How can we connect to multi-dimensional senses of time through somatic practice?
What is the relationship between our personal sources of energy and the infrastructures that sustain our way of life?
How can an artwork explore the invisible and dynamic play between our life force and forces under the ground?
Image credit:
Ranu Mukherjee
mining spiral, collage/animation, 2024
RECENT WORKS
PARTIAL VIEW (2024)
Dancers Rosemary Hannon (up) and Belinda He (down) practicing Partial View, a long-form contact improvisation duet exploring the somatics and performance of partnering. Partial View invites the audience into co-directing the score alongside the performers. Read more about the work HERE.
HORIZON STANZAS (2023)
“You will, I think, be very much moved … [Bacchae Before is] a stunner. See this, and your understanding of the feelings and experience of transgender children and adolescents will never feel quite the same…. a wonderful achievement.”
- TheatreStorm
“Bacchae Before distills and refracts a classical text of frenzy and filicide through a trans-centered, gender-affirming perspective.”
-KQED Arts
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