Mohona: Estuaries of Desire at The O'Shaughnessy

Created as a multi-disciplinary, total theater experience that invites audience participation, "Mohona" relates stories and layers images of women's work and lives in relation to water to reflect and pose questions about access to this natural resource and the systemic violence against people that results when it is subject to private control.
The stories in "Mohona" recall and celebrate historic struggles, pain, determination, and courage. Here, water is both material, quenching thirst, and metaphor, signifying flow, femininity, and resistance. The performance space is imagined as an estuary - located at the confluence of multiple marine flows, rich in possibilities - where dancers layer breath, movement, and voice to explore the themes.
Audience members will be invited to participate in the performance by contributing a wish, a memory, a thought, or a prayer to the metaphoric river, and to join the dancers in the final Procession movement on stage and throughout the theater in a metaphoric call to action.