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Susie Burpee + Linnea Swan = Road Trip

I am so fortunate to have an ongoing collaboration with my longtime friend and colleague Linnea Swan, under the banner of Road Trip. We aim to disrupt disciplinary conventions through our work together, and we’re interested in an ongoing expedition into the fleeting nature of performance.

Past work together includes the Dora Award-winning stage work Road Trip (2012), which has been performed across Canada.

In the summer of 2019, we were commissioned by dance: made in Canada to create Road Trip (Drive-In). Part live performance, part video installation, and screened inside a car, we worked with archival ‘behind the scenes’ footage in order to look at ideas of ephemerality and disappearance.

In 2020 we created Allegra, a short film premiered at Screen:Moves, Progress Festival, Toronto.

NEXT UP:

A choregraphic commission by Alyssa Martin (Rock Bottom Movement). Linnea and I wanted to push ourselved out of our comfort zone and explore the work of this dance-theatre dynamo who is provocatively and humbly making work that rips the heart out, makes you laugh in a way you never imagined, and romps around in discomfort in a way that is surprisingly and hearteningly welcome. Who wouldn’t want to work with her?? We feel honoured and fortunate. Premiering Fall 2023…Check out the NEWS page for details.