Artist in Residence: Hope Mohr Dance – Work In Progress Showing
While at Bethany, modern dance choreographer Hope Mohr and dancer Jane Selna will be developing develop movement material for a work in progress called “Passages.” “Passages” honors our ancient and common history: the human body in conversation with the Earth, sound and gravity. The project is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Mohr and Danae Mattes (visual artist).
ABOUT HOPE MOHR
Hope Mohr is a choreographer, curator and writer. She trained at S.F. Ballet School and on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown Studios in New York City. She performed in the companies of dance pioneers Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown. Passionate about pursuing both community organizing and dance, Mohr earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Columbia Human Rights Fellow. In 2007, Mohr returned to San Francisco to establish Hope Mohr Dance to create, present and foster outstanding art at the intersection of the body and the brain. HMD’s signature curatorial platform The Bridge Project approaches curating as community organizing to convene equity-driven cultural conversations.
Mohr makes work that “conveys emotional and socio-political contents that just ride underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary.” (Dance View Times). Her “insistently inventive” choreography (East Bay Express) brings dance in dialogue with other disciplines such as visual art and literature. Her body of work features innovative collaborations with acclaimed visual artists like Liam Everett, Ranu Mukherjee, Matthew Ritchie, and Danae Mattes. Her work has been presented recently by Highways Performance Space (LA), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art (Sonoma), Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), SFMOMA, ODC Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, and many others.
Mohr has held residencies at Stanford Arts Institute, National Center for Choreography, ODC Theater, Montalvo Arts Center, Petronio Residency Center, and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance. She was named to the YBCA 100 in 2015 and was a 2016 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2014, Dance Magazine editor-in-chief Wendy Perron named Mohr as one of the “women leaders” in the dance field.
Bethany Arts Community’s residency programs are made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.