Ghost Period

Ghost Period is a collaboration between Hope Mohr and Atosa Babaoff, inspired by Mary Ruefle's iconic essay about menopause, "Pause," from My Private Property. Copyright 2016 by Mary Ruefle. Used with permission of the author and Wave Books.

Ghost Period is made possible through a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and a Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Arts Center.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Atosa Babaoff (she/her) is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. Program. She has worked at Shotgun Players, A.C.T, Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, and was a company member of both Laura Arrington Dance and Liz Tenuto Dance and a Half, which led her to NYC twice for some amazing performances. She is a founding member of Affinity Project with Nora el Samahy, Beatrice Basso, and Emily Hoffman. They were recipients of grants/residencies that led them to perform with FoolsFURY and at YBCA. She has an abundant and lovely yoga career when not performing. She is grateful for all of the loved ones in her life who encourage her to keep pursuing all that she is passionate about, in art and in life.

Hope Mohr (she/her), artist and arts leader, has been making multidisciplinary performance for over 30 years.

Hope works across performance, visual art, and language to explore embodiment, feminism, gender, and queerness. She makes performance that “conveys emotional and socio-political contents that ride just underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary.” (Dance View Times).

Hope trained at S.F. Ballet School and on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown Studios in New York City. She performed in the companies of dance pioneers Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown, and Margaret Jenkins and freelanced with Liz Gerring, Douglas Dunn, Trajal Herrell, Della Davidson, and Pat Catterson.

Theaters, museums, and galleries across the U.S. that have presented and commissioned Hope’s work include: Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), SFMOMA, ICA San Francisco, Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC), Highways Performance Space (LA), Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), 18th Street Arts Center (LA), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art (Sonoma), 836M Gallery, Mills Art Museum, Gallery Wendi Norris, and the San Jose Museum of Art, ODC Theater, Counterpulse, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco International Arts Festival, West Wave Festival, Montalvo Arts Center, and S.F. VA Hospital’s Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation.
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