ARTISTIC STATEMENT
As a theatre artist, director, devisor, actor and teacher with over 30 years experience, my training and practice lies in physical transformation. Applied not only to theatre, my work urges and pushes the creative spirit in all who witness, participate and engage. The performer is both pedestrian and poetic as their body transforms into varying aspects of the human condition. Body, voice and imagination are the only tools the performer has to engage and are the most essential tools a performer has to engage with the audience.
ABOUT
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Susan Bertoia is a professional theatre artist, performer, director, devisor, writer, drama teacher, and mom to three amazing humans. Susan’s invigorating artistic style, with specialization in physical theatre and mask performance, make her a well sought-out teaching artist and performer throughout Canada. Her work explores transposing the poetry of life into the comedic and dramatic moments for the stage. Susan's artistic leadership has been described as engaging, encouraging and disarming.
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UPCOMING , RECENT & ONGOING PROJECTS:
SUMMER COMMEDIA DELL ARTE MASTERCLASS
July 8-11, 2025
10:00 - 14:00, Vancouver, BC
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THE BERTOIA METHOD
facilitator & teacher
online & in-person devised theatre workshops
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OUR LAST TREE
physical dramaturgy/youth mentor
SOME ASSEMBLY THEATRE
Vancouver, Roundhouse Theatre
April 29 - May 3, 2025 (Tix online, FREE)
WORKSHOPS
FOR PERFORMERS AND ALL THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT THEATRE MAKING
LIKE: COMMEDIA, MASK MAKING, DEVISING...
CONTACT ME: HERE
THE RAW DIARIES
Interview by Jay Hamburger of Co-op Radio
LISTEN HERE
PANORAM ITALIA MAGAZINE
"Transforming life's moments into living art on stage" (Anna Foschi, 2022)
READ ARTICLE HERE
Selma Lagerlöf’s The Löwensköld Ring
(Premiere Presentation, STAY TUNED
Creative Director/Director
LITTLE MOUNTAIN LION PRODUCTIONS
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