She's gone away

(clic ici pour She's Gone Away [Elle s'est en allée] en francais)

Choreographer, co-composer and performer: Susanna Hood
Co-composer and performer: Nilan Perera
Director: Jennnifer Tarver
Length of Piece: 55 minutes

She's gone away a one-woman performance piece conceived and created by Susanna Hood with co-composer Nilan Perera and director Jennifer Tarver. As the third in a series of works using dream and memory to touch on themes of sexuality, female power, healing, and loss of innocence, She's gone away is spoken through the combined language of movement, song, poetic text, instrumental music, and visual design.

A moment of sexual suspension, caught in mid-flight, a woman in the fragmented home of her mind battles to stay in her body. She spins us through a continuous cycle of animal states that simultaneously provide both the escape from and the clues back to her integrated self. This highly charged physical and emotional journey throws us into the depths of voracity, bravado, dread, despair, and release.

She's gone away premièred in Toronto at the Theatre Centre in April 2006. It was remounted at Théâtre LaChapelle in Montréal in October 2008

"She's Gone Away is superb...Hood is simply sublime in her portayal of a woman struggling to find herself."
Paula Citron, Classical 96.3 FM