HOMING solo body-object-sound

A co-presentation with Ottawa Dance Directive
ODD BOX, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON
Shows: March 27, 28 at 8pm
$25 here on Eventbrite or cash at the door

Creation & Performance – Susanna Hood
Sound Creation – Frédéric B.Briet
Dramaturgy – Thea Patterson
Coaching performatif – Sylvie Tourangeau
Choreographic Consultation – Sarah Bild

Duration: 60min
Content warning: nudity

“Homing – solo body, object, sound” is Susanna Hood's most recent work - vulnerable, daring, risky and powerful. Created in collaboration with French musician and composer Frédéric B.Briet, the piece's creation was initially inspired by Susanna's desire to inhabit and be inhabited by the body of her mother, now deceased. "Homing" works to transform a wound between their two bodies stemming from the legacy of self-hatred towards the female body, and an inaccessible physical silence that this created between them. Accompanied by a modular and improvised electro-acoustic environment that evokes a dialogue between the present moment and the space of memory, “Homing” plays with magic, perception, memory, loss, the creation of kinship ties and transformation.
For more information, images, teasers, and team biographies, visit Susanna's site here.

"Thank you for showing me that home is not only a noun, a person, a place, a feeling, but also a verb; a present, intentional action." Audience member, Liam Gover

«Susanna Hood est si puissante et le pouvoir du son, si irresistible qu’en nous ouvrant cet accès à elle-même, elle nous ouvre une porte sur notre propre monde. L’effet est toujours bouleversant. » – Fabienne Cabado, Voir

A co-presentation with Ottawa Dance Directive

ODD BOX, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON
Workshop: March 24 from 7pm - 9pm
$30 here on Eventbrite or cash at the door
This workshop invites participants to play inside some of the foundations of Susanna's creative practice, most specifically in relation to the creation of her work HOMING. It will begin with a warm-up of our whole physical being (body, voice and imagination), drawing inspiration from somatic approaches such as Open Source Forms and Emotionally Integrated Voice, in order to prepare us for collective creative process through improvisation in movement, voice, and in relation to personal objects. Through sensing, seeing and group tuning, we will build towards the creation and animation of a shared image-space, tending to both our own internal imagery and the outer image within which it lives. Together we will co-compose from the inside out to the outside in.

This workshop is open to all those with a physical and/or creative practice - professionals, pre-professionals and passionate amateurs alike! The workshop will be offered in English with French translation as necessary. For more information on Susanna's teaching practice, visit her site here.

"Susanna is a highly skilled, dedicated, rigorous, and responsive teacher. She brings to her work a formidable intelligence in both body & brain, and rigor in both physical practice & thought process. And she brings her whole self -- including her wealth of experience as a performer, improviser, and creator -- to all aspects of her teaching practice." Stephanie Skura, founder of Open Source Forms

"As a performer and creator Susanna plumbs the depths of breath, movement and voice integration, following its pull towards physical-emotional story-telling. She is also a leader and a collaborator who brings transparency and vulnerability to her approach with students by being in and modelling her own ongoing process while guiding them....I have come to know Susanna as a skilled, conscientious, compassionate, nurturing, curious and confident teacher; her body is a library of synthesized experience." - Fides Krucker, founder of Emoitionally Integrated Voice

Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based performer, maker and educator in both dance and music, Susanna Hood has devoted her career to synthesizing voice and movement, creating intimate and sensual performances in both dance-theatre and improvised music contexts. Founder and former artistic director of interdisciplinary performance company (2000-2013) her work has been marked by significant collaborations with musical artists (improvisational duo dialogues; and choreographic musical works still, , )), (), and (as band member of , and The Disguises; and as co-creator/performer of – songs and dances setting the poetry of P.K. Page).

Throughout her career as a creator, and particularly in the last decade, she has sought a total integration of the dance and music aspects of her practice, influenced by her internal, holistic experience of moving, sounding, and listening. Something she refers to as embodied music: the experience of movement as music and of sound/music as movement, where the two forms, in dialogue, remain simultaneously distinct and interchangeable, to create a listener/viewer experience that blurs the lines between what is heard and what is seen. In support of this interest, she pursued post-graduate research in the Research Studios at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium (2015/2016) with the program’s emphasis on synergistic relations between dance and music. Recent creations (, 2016, and , 2019) have been driven by her own musical compositions arranging voices, instruments and movement.

Recent projects include: the duo musical collaboration Tortues Vapeur, with Montreal turntablist, , mixing turntables, electronics, synthesizers, vocals and objects. (releasing their first disk on on DAME’s Mikroclimat label in 2019); a duo with Belgian bassist, ; touring performances with the French trio (Frédéric BBriet, double bass; Nicolas Pointard, drums; and Christophe Rocher, clarinettes); and unPacked, the first project with her trio with Toronto/Tkaronto musicians (piano) and (soprano saxophone), where Susanna is performer, bandleader, arranger and choreographer for a suite of songs by the late American poet, Judith Malina and the late American jazz composer, Steve Lacy. unPacked was released as a recording in early 2024 on Quebec’s DAME/Ambiance Magnétique label.

Since 2004, Susanna has been teaching improvisation, composition, and voice and movement synthesis in various institutions and through independent workshops across Canada, internationally and online, including: The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre (ON, CAN), T.O. Love-In (ON, CAN), l’École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal (QC, CAN), Studio 303 (QC, CAN), TransFormation (QC, CAN), L’École de Danse de Québec (QC, CAN), l’Artère (QC, CAN), Crimson Coast Dance Society (BC, CAN), Mascall Dance (BC, CAN), Istanbul International Festival of Improvisation (Istanbul, Turkey), Le Conservatoire de Brest (Brest, France), E.D.E.N. Studios (Berlin, Germany), and in Graz, Austria. In 2023, she joined the roster of part-time faculty in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University, Montreal and at Dance Art Institute (formerly The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre), Toronto.

Since 2013 Susanna has become a teacher trainer of Open Source Forms, a practice fluidly expanded from and combining the principles of the Skinner Releasing Technique with the varied and developing practices of its teachers. In July 2023 she completed teacher certification in Emotionally Integrated Voice with her teacher of 20 years, Fides Krucker. Both of these practices lie at the core of her creative process which interweaves a concern with physical music-making and how both our physiology and our emotions can work together to create sustainable and intentional vocal and physical expression and communication.

Awards include the 1998 K.M. Hunter Emerging Artists Award in Dance, 2006 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance, and the 2008 Canada Council Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Dance.

https://humdansoundart.wordpress.com/company/, https://lapoele307.wordpress.com/workshops-2/

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