Susanna Hood, Shudder at the 2011 SummerWorks Festival
Susanna Hood Susanna Hood, creator of Shudder and artistic director of hum dansoundart , speaks about remounting a work, replacing herself and finding her voice. LR: Susanna, you are dealing with an injury — how have you adapted the rehearsal process for Shudder to accommodate this? SH: The main adjustment has been to replace myself with a performer who I really trust. Linnea Swan has performed the role once before, and I’m happy to have the chance to deepen my work with her in this piece. I am actually looking forward to re-approaching the piece from the outside, where, in fact, I spent a good percentage of the time over its three-year creation process. I have some new perspective on the work as a whole, and liberating myself of the role of performer may allow me make more impactful changes to the piece. I’ve also done something I’ve never done before, which is to give the performers two full days just to recover the material without me in the room. I did this to ensure that I woul...