Hope Mohr Dance presents her Fourth Home Season March 3, 2011

March 3-5, 8pm and March 6, 2pm

For its fourth home season Hope Mohr Dance presents the world premiere of The Unsayable as well as a new work by Liz Gerring Dance Company. Artistic Director Hope Mohr's The Unsayable is a performance project bringing together war veterans and professional dancers in conversation to explore personal stories through movement and text. The project adapts the methodology that Mohr developed in 2008 when working on a piece with cancer patients, Under the Skin. Now, working with the San Francisco and Palo Alto VA hospitals and the nonprofit organization Swords to Plowshares, Hope Mohr Dance has invited veterans of conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq to join The Unsayable.

Veterans participate as artistic partners, not subjects or patients. The Unsayable aims to provide them with an opportunity for creative expression and community engagement and to offer audiences a fresh perspective on the role of art in time of war. Composer Paul Haas will create original music for the piece and writer Bart Schneider will adapt participants' stories for a performance text.

Hope Mohr Dance's fourth home season also features she dreams in code, a new work by Liz Gerring Dance Company.

In she dreams in code Gerring concentrates on the creation of images abstracted from everyday life. Collaborating with Gerring is her longtime collaborator, composer and sound artist Michael J. Schumacher. Together they explore "the co-dependency between dance and music," creating in Gerring's words, "an oblique environment of relationships that crisscross space and time." Accompanying Schumacher's multi-channel electronic score is a minimalist set design with lighting by Caroyln Wong. Five dancers from Gerring's company will perform: Philip Montana, Tony Neidenbach, Adele Nickel, Brandin Steffenson, and Jessica Weiss.

Official Website: http://www.hopemohr.org