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2013 · Dance – stage work

Failure of the Sign Is the Sign

Hope Mohr (Hope Mohr Dance)

A sextet about the moment of learning to speak as a step toward selfhood and separation from the mother. Dancers move and vocalize amid soft-sculpture organs while a voiceover of mother and daughter poetry unfolds in alphabetical order.

Premiere
2013-05-02
Venue
ODC Theater (Hope Mohr Dance 6th Home Season; ODC Theater commission)
Where
San Francisco, CA
Performances
May 2–5, 2013 ODC Theater (premiere run); May 8, 2013 Stanford University; Sept 27–28, 2013 Motion Pacific, Santa Cruz; Oct 12, 2013 Yerba Buena Night, SF (excerpt); Dec 4–5, 2013 The Garage, SF (presented by Footloose as part of 'metrics of intimacy').
Credits
Choreography: Hope Mohr. Dancers: James Graham, Tegan Schwab, Roche Janken, Katharine Hawthorne, Jeremy Bannon-Neches, David Schleiffers. Music: Roomful of Teeth. Sound design: Ben Juodvalkis. Set design (soft sculptures): Katrina Rodabaugh. Lighting: David Szlasa.

Press

“Their bodies wrap around the soft, long-limbed sculptures until set and performer become one.”

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