Dialogues is an extensively researched and developed improvised performance by dancer/choreographer/vocalist/composer Susanna Hood and musician/composer Nilan Perera. They have been developing and performing this series of spontaneous compositions since the spring of 1998 by creating a conversation between the worlds of movement and sound using dance, voice, and prepared electric guitar. The result is an improvisational language that explores the common territory shared by sound and movement where each discipline becomes and feeds the other. They paint the space by weaving kinetic and sonic gestures and images. It is wordless story telling created in the moment of performance through physical music.
	dialogues is slight and event-specific, making it adaptable to both the technical capabilities and time constraints of virtually any and all venues and events. Past performances have taken the shape of a single piece of ten to fifteen minutes on a shared program as well as hour-long sets of our own made up of a series of short pieces. We have presented the work in a wide variety of venues with ease, from the Studio at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa to small dance clubs throughout Toronto.
dialogues has been presented in Toronto at Artword Theatre, Dancemakers studio, the Theatre Centre, the nightclubs Area 51 and the Weave, in Ottawa in the Studio at the National Arts Centre and in the Dance Umbrella of Ontario’s showcase performance at the Canada Dance Festival 2000, in St. Catherine’s at the Niagara Artists Company’s Vagabond Theatre, and the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival 2002 and the Distillery Jazz Festival 2004.