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) has performed at various venues across the bay including A.C.T, Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theater, Shotgun Players, Marin Theater Co, Golden Thread Productions, ODC/Counterpulse, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Affinity Project/Hope Mohr's Bridge Project) and many more. She co-founded AFFINITY PROJECT with Nora El Samahy and Beatrice Basso; their production of RUSSIAN PLAY (through Counterpulse) was cited by KQED as one of the 'wildest theatrical rides' of 2015 alongside productions by the likes of The Wooster Group and Dave Malloy. She is thrilled and grateful to have had the chance to collaborate with Hope on GHOST PERIOD.

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