Susanna Hood

  • Performer (dance, voice) • Improviser

Artistic Director of her interdisciplinary performance company hum (www.humdansoundart.ca), Susanna Hood is a compelling and virtuosic performer in dance and music. She has performed the works of various Canadian choreographers including Tedd Robinson, Peter Chin, Christopher House and David Earl (as a member of The Toronto Dance Theatre), created singing/dancing roles with Autumn Leaf Productions, acted on film for filmmaker Philip Barker, created music for the dance works of Louis Laberge Côté, Rebecca Todd, Eryn Dace Trudell and Tedd Robinson, collaborated extensively with composers John Oswald, Nilan Perera and Catherine Thompson, and performed widely as an improviser both in dance and music. Currently she is a member of The Rent, a quintet dedicated to playing the music of Steve Lacy, as the band’s singer. Her collaborative projects as well as her own choreography and music compositions have been presented throughout Toronto, nationally, and internationally on stage and in film since 1991. In the fall of 1998, she received the K. M. Hunter Emerging Artists Awards in Dance. She was the recipient of the 2006 Dora Mavor MooreAward for Outstanding Performance in Dance for her solo show She’s Gone Away, and in 2007 she was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Choreography in Dance for her first group work on Dancemakers company loveloathing. Most recently, Susanna received the Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Artist in the Field of Dance.

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Events

Live pictures

  • Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Meredith Bates, Bernard Falaise, Ivan Bamford, Susanna Hood, Stéphane Diamantakiou / Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: 13 Lunar Meditations — Summoning the Witches, La Sala Rossa, Montréal (Québec) [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), June 12, 2022]
  • Susanna Hood, Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Bernard Falaise / 7: Pierre-Yves Martel revisite Les Poules (2002) [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), April 21, 2021]
  • Susanna Hood, Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Bernard Falaise, Michel F Côté, Émilie Mouchous, Craig Pedersen / 7: Pierre-Yves Martel revisite Les Poules (2002) [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), April 21, 2021]
  • Back row: Michel F Côté; Catherine Tardif; Pierre-Luc Senécal; Danielle Palardy Roger; Maya Kuroki; Susanna Hood; Ida Toninato. Front row: ; David Cronkite; Christiane Charbonneau; Gabriel Dharmoo; Kathy Kennedy; Elizabeth Lima; Jean Derome; Lori Freedman; Vergil Sharkya’. Joane Hétu, direction [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), October 6, 2017]
  • Back row: Michel F Côté; Catherine Tardif; Pierre-Luc Senécal; Danielle Palardy Roger; Maya Kuroki; Susanna Hood; Ida Toninato. Front row: David Cronkite; Christiane Charbonneau; Gabriel Dharmoo; Kathy Kennedy; Elizabeth Lima; Jean Derome; Lori Freedman; Vergil Sharkya’. Joane Hétu, direction [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), October 6, 2017]
  • Back row: Michel F Côté; Catherine Tardif; Pierre-Luc Senécal; Danielle Palardy Roger; Maya Kuroki; Susanna Hood; Ida Toninato. Front row: Diane Labrosse; David Cronkite; Christiane Charbonneau; Gabriel Dharmoo; Kathy Kennedy; Elizabeth Lima; Jean Derome; Lori Freedman; Vergil Sharkya’. Joane Hétu, direction [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), October 6, 2017]
  • Elizabeth Lima; Susanna Hood; Kathy Kennedy; Alexandre St-Onge singing in the choir Chorale Joker [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), March 1, 2013]
  • Susanna Hood, Alexandre St-Onge singing in the choir Chorale Joker [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), March 1, 2013]
  • The choir Chorale Joker conducted by Joane Hétu in concert in Montréal during the Festival MNM, left to right: Susanna Hood; Elizabeth Lima; Alexandre St-Onge; Kathy Kennedy; Danielle Palardy Roger; Jean Derome; Isaiah Ceccarelli; Will Eizlini; Gabriel Dharmoo; Lori Freedman; Géraldine Eguiluz; Diane Labrosse [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), March 1, 2013]
  • Gabriel Dharmoo; Isaiah Ceccarelli; Susanna Hood; Danielle Palardy Roger; Joane Hétu interpreted the piece Les cœurs de Marguerite [Photograph: Élisabeth Alice Coutu, Montréal (Québec), February 26, 2013]
  • Isaiah Ceccarelli; Susanna Hood; Gabriel Dharmoo [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), February 26, 2013]
  • Susanna Hood; Danielle Palardy Roger; Joane Hétu interpreted the piece Mon olivine [Photograph: Céline Côté, Montréal (Québec), February 26, 2013]