Suzie Birchwood

Dance & Dialogue is a series of dual presentations featuring movement and words.
For the dance component, Suzie Birchwood presents two pieces. The first is a trio between a
classical dancer, an aerial artist and a contemporary dancer, exploring Birchwood’s tempestuous
relationship with her condition, generalised dystonia. The second work plays with notions of
support and balance, exploring Suzie’s changing physicality during the cyclical patterns of her
condition.

The dialogue component sees Birchwood in conversation with her research collaborators,
looking at the revolutionary impact of neuroplasticity on her dystonia treatment. By revealing her
shifting physicality, Birchwood illustrates that the disorder is a unique and changing aspect of her
identity as a dancer.