Suzie Rzecznik is a Queens based dancer, art model, movement director, and choreographer. Her training began in the small town of New Castle, Pennsylvania, then attended high school at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, PA, focusing on modern dance and musical theater. Later Suzie received her BFA in Modern Dance from Marymount Manhattan College in New York, NY. She also studied at the Joffrey Ballet School and San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. During her studies, Suzie had the opportunity to perform works by Alex Ketley, Cherice Barton, Christian Burns, Lar Lubovitch, Alexandre Proia, Mark Morris, and Ohad Naharin.
Professionally, Rzecznik has performed with Amirov Dance Theater, Bare Dance Company/Mike Esperanza, the Kuperman Brothers, Marlena Wolf, Olivier Besson, Suzzanne Ponamoranko and Jenn Rose. She was a founding member and rehearsal director for Jackie Nowicki’s NOW Dance Project from 2015-2017. Suzie has also served as rehearsal director and choreographic assistant to Anthony Morigerato, Tyler Gilstrap, and Elena Vazintaris. Currently, Suzie is working on projects with Kelly Ashton Todd and Boy Friday Company/Erik Abbott-Main.
Some performance credits include Phish's 2017 NYE Concert at Madison Square Garden, the technology LAB at Panorama Music Festival and SDC’s Mr. Abbott Awards 2019. Suzie was featured as a contributing artist in BOMB Magazine Issue 143 for a collaboration with artist Jordan Seiler, which was also exhibited at MOCA Detroit. She can be seen on the cover of DIY Dancer Magazine Issue 02 for a collaboration with photographer Jim Lafferty, in an online campaign for Davines Hair Products, and in GAP Jeans fall commercial 2019. Suzie’s solo work has been presented at Triskelion Arts, HiArtist, SoFar Sounds, The Craft: Performance and Brews, Spontaneous Combustion, and Mobius Gallery. Most recently her movement direction work was featured in Marie Claire Mexico March 2020 Issue.
Play, explore, navigate, embodiment, space, fluidity, sound, movement, articulation, deepen, presence, abandoned, form, practice, breathe, reflection, story, limit, no limit, edges, groove, loss, love, dance.
Some questions to myself in my creative practice: how we can express complexities of society and emotions by being so vulnerable as to our bodies as the mode of communication? How can we use intimacy, improvisation, and collaboration to build experiences for performance? Dance is social, dance is love, dance is our nature, dance is survival.