Susanna Hood

Susanna Hood, Artistic Director of her interdisciplinary performance company hum (www.humdansoundart.ca), is a compelling and virtuosic performer in dance and music. She began her career as a member of the Toronto Dance Theatre from 1991 through 1995. Independently, she has performed the works of various Canadian choreographers, created singing/dancing roles with Autumn Leaf Productions, acted on film for filmmaker Philip Barker, created music for the dance works of Louis Laberge Coté, 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. 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 Moore Award 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 the Dancemakers company “loveloathing”. Most recently, Susanna received the Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Artist in the Field of Dance.