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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.

In 2023, we embarked upon a choregraphic commission by Alyssa Martin (Rock Bottom Movement). In PUS, two funny women grapple with their calcifying imaginations, their ghosts, and their need to scream (sing) about the passage of time. It’s a variety show, a dance spectacle, and an intimate interview about the things that make us itch. See NEWS for more details.