February 1, 2007
8 pm: She's Gone Away
Following performance: Talk-Back with Susanna Hood, Nilan Perera and Sara Porter

February 2, 2007
7:15pm: Pre-Show Chat with Sara Porter
8 pm: She's Gone Away
Following performance: Reception

Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
336 George Street North
Tickets are available at the door or in advance by reservation. Call 745-1788.
$15 - $10 students / seniors / underemployed.

"Hood rivets the eye, and her performances are like a primal scream."
- Paula Citron, Classical 96.3 FM

"Whatever has taken possession of Susanna Hood makes for a riveting, if disturbing and even repelling performance."
- Toronto Star

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. She's Gone Away is a highly charged physical and emotional journey that throws us into the depths of voracity, bravado, dread, despair, and release. It takes dance into the territory between sound and movement, from which a new sensory language emerges.

She's Gone Away is the latest work by the innovative interdisciplinary dance company hum, known for its powerfully communicative and transformative performances, rooted in emotion, that connect with audiences on a fundamentally human level. Artistic Director and performer Susanna Hood and composer/musician Nilan Perera are widely acclaimed for collaborations that see Perera taking part as another performer, manipulating voices, instruments and pre-recorded sound as the work unfolds on stage. Their stay in Peterborough offers audiences and artists an unprecedented opportunity to get an inside look at their process, including a master class with Hood and Perera, an open rehearsal of the work, and a number of talks given by or moderated by dance writer Sara Porter.