Hope Mohr Dance: The Force that Drives the Flower February 26, 2009

Choreographer Hope Mohr’s passion for dance, social issues—especially environmental ones— and recent experience of new motherhood all come together with the debut of her new 40 minute work, The Force that Drives the Flower.

Suggesting a mythic world held in time and frozen in a singular season, Paul Fowler’s score features dramatic and vivid samplings of orchestral strings, natural soundscapes, insects, singing bowls, and the buzz of electronic machines

Broken down into six sections the piece will describe the constant cycle of loss, regeneration, rupture and re-weaving represented by the natural world and its changing seasons.

• Opening harvest ritual
• Mother/daughter duet
• Persephone’s abduction
• Demeter’s grief and the descent of Winter
• Persephone in Hell
• The journey back and re-weaving

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