Hope Mohr Dance's eighth spring season, produced in association with ODC Theater, features two world premieres: "Stay," inspired by the emotionally raw paintings of Francis Bacon, and "The Material of Attention," a structured improvisation for six dancers, developed in collaboration with Christian Burns.
"In 'Stay' I'm not working to recreate Bacon's compositions," explains Mohr, "but instead the feelings I have in response to his paintings: viscerally affected, morally challenged. Bacon's hallucinatory images have pushed me to 'stay' longer with certain difficult ideas, opening the door to emotional content underneath formal concerns."
Those formal concerns include a commitment one shared with Bacon to non-narrative representation. More pressingly for Mohr, the piece explores the relationship between abstraction and the emotions in an effort to find a way out of the alienation so endemic to Bacon's work. "I want to show, that in the context of abstract art there can be emotional connection-among dancers, and between performers and audience."
Performers in "Stay" include Patrick Barnes, Lindsey Renee Derry, Michael Galloway, James Graham and Tegan Schwab. Sound design for Stay is by Teddy Hulsker, with set, lighting and live video projection design by Mohr's longtime collaborator, David Szlasa.
"The Material of Attention" expands Mohr and Burn's improvisation research over the last two years to include an ensemble of six dancers: Aidan DeYoung, James Graham, Parker Murphy, Peiling Kao, Tegan Schwab and Megan Wright. "The work develops our practice of performing instantaneous composition based on principles of awareness," says Mohr. "We're exploring the middle ground between chaos and order, craft and surprise."
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