Done July, 2024 in California as an installation of Sommer's artwork with 23 live and interactive performances. The artworks (flags) were made using recycled fabric and, coupled with tear-rendering performances, were a commentary on the transience and vulnerability of the forests.
2020
This is the trailer for 'This Holding: Traces of Contact' (a 28' film featuring professional dancers, soft sculpture and an original score). Filmed and produced in the early months of the pandemic, This Holding addresses the burdens, anxieties, and hopes of these unprecedented times. This was a collaboration between Jana Harper, Moksha Sommer, and Rebecca Steinberg. It was presented by OZ Arts Nashville.
A collaboration between Jana Harper, Cuban dancer Liliam Padrón and her company Danza Espiral, and singer Moksha Sommer, Cargas is an hour-long performance that addresses the burdens we carry and how through empathy and community we might eventually transform them. During preparational workshops, performers came up with a list of 100 words that describe the weights they experience as Cubans. These ranged from everyday local concerns such as food shortages or caring for one’s family to global issues like migration and climate change. The words were painted on ration bags and carried through the city of Matanzas, from the sacred Ceiba Tree to the Palace of Justice.
Cargas was performed on May 12, 2019 as the concluding performance for Ríos Intermitentes, a project for the 13th Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba.
Sommer has performed and composed full-time as HuDost since 2006 in addition to her solo work. More information is available on the HuDost website, HERE.
Sommer also creates art-based music videos for this project. Here are a couple of recent examples:
Painting- 2019- Presented at the WKU US Bank show in Bowling Green, KY
