She's gone away - new creation

Choreographer/Co-composer/Performer: Susanna Hood
Co-composer/Performer: Nilan Perera
Director: Jennnifer Tarver
Length of Piece: 55 minutes

"She's gone away" is a new 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' premiered in Toronto at the Theatre Centre in April 2006.

"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