2014 · Dance – stage work
s(oft is)hard
Archive folder: Shard
Hope Mohr (Hope Mohr Dance)
A solo for Peiling Kao drawn from Hope Mohr's personal journals and her history of journaling. The movement grows from small reflexive adjustments into large rolling and diving phrases, while the score layers writing sounds with a voice reading dates from 1945 to the present.
- Premiere
- 2014-09
- Venue
- Joe Goode Annex, Hope Mohr Dance's 2014 Bridge Project 'Have We Come a Long Way, Baby?'; also listed with ODC Theater's Take 5 series
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Company performance history lists September 5 and 26–27, 2014; reviewed at the September 27, 2014 Bridge Project program at the Joe Goode Annex (with Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and a panel moderated by Janice Ross).
- Credits
- Choreography: Hope Mohr. Performer: Peiling Kao (solo). Sound score: Ben Juodvalkis (writing sounds, musical interludes, and a voice reciting dates from June 6, 1945 onward). Dates were also projected during the piece.
Press
“Ben Juodvalkis' score combined writing sounds, some occasional musical interludes and what I assume was Mohr's voice reciting dates”
“Minimal piano accompanies the continued chronological progression of dates.”
“The minimalist sound design incorporates dozens of dates read aloud, but no actual journal entries.”
Elsewhere
- The Bridge Project 2014 — heatherdance.com, 2014-09-28
- Hope Mohr Dance / Have We Come A Long Way, Baby? — Keith Hennessy (zeroperformance blog), 2014-10-23
- "Have We Come A Long Way, Baby?" asks Hope Mohr — Bachtrack, 2014-09-29
- Hope Mohr Dance's Bridge Project 2014: Have We Come a Long Way, Baby? (Excerpts) — Vimeo (Hope Mohr), 2014
- s(oft is) hard — Hope Mohr Dance — Hope Mohr Dance, 2014
- 2014 Bridge Project — Hope Mohr Dance — Hope Mohr Dance, 2014-09
- Performance History — Hope Mohr Dance — Hope Mohr Dance, 2014