Join us for the first program of the Moody’s 2025 spring season, score for transitional times, a performance installation resulting from a long-term collaboration between choreographer Hope Mohr and visual artist Ranu Mukherjee. Featuring an ensemble of international dancers, this one-night-only presentation inaugurates a season of artistic responses to the climate crisis, organized in conjunction with the forthcoming exhibition, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice.

Approaching the current era of energy transition from a place of environmental and cultural consciousness, score for transitional times begins with a tableau vivant inspired by questions around energy. The choreography coalesces and falls apart in repeating cycles, according to different time signatures. The scene draws from lineages of resource extraction, inspired by visual scores designed by Mohr and Mukherjee. Muslin collages incorporating drawing and sculpture hang from moveable screens that are integrated into the choreography. Together with video projections by Mukherjee, diverse visual scores prompt the dancers to explore layered expressions of tempo and rhythm. 

score for transitional times features dancers Kayla Collymore, Donna Crump, Suzette Sagisi, and Tegan Schwab-Alavi, and will take place in the Moody Center for the Art’s Central Gallery. This one-night performance is free and open to all. 
 

score for transitional times asks: 

How can the wisdom of the body inform dialogue around sustainable futures? How can we connect to multi-dimensional senses of time through somatic practice? What is the relationship between our personal sources of energy and the infrastructures that sustain our way of life? How can an artwork explore the invisible and dynamic play between our life force and forces underground?