Founding Company Member 2001-2003
Assistant Director 2006-current

Suzanne Dado loves to move! She enjoyed moving in semi trucks as she drove big rigs for two years in the mid-nineties. She got ants in her pants and decided to move her body around rather than trucks so she went back to school for her BA and now has a degree in Dance Teaching and choreography from Columbia College Chicago. She is a certified Power Pilates instructor and teaches the Pilates warm up for the Breakbone classes. She has taught ballet, modern, jazz, and creative movement to all ages in the Chicagoland area. She has worked with Gallery 37 teaching teenagers movement awareness on stage, and has choreographed for the European Repertory Theater Company. Aside from dancing with Breakbone, Suzanne choreographs her own work and was accepted as one of the artist's in residence in the Link Up program at Links Hall. She also has danced for many choreographers such as Jyl Fehrenkamp, Bob Isen, H.T. Chen and Dancers, Ann Boyd, Dardi McGinley Gallivan, Colleen Halloran and the dance improvisation group, Iris.

Her dad was an ironworker and liked to swing around on booms and climb many stories above the ground for a living. It's no wonder she can't sit still! She grew up in an industrial town known as Whiting, the asshole of Chicago (she's very proud of that) in which the big industries such as BP to name one (used to be Standard Oil/Amoco) is currently trying to eat up their residents and spit them out (she's pissed about that) by unconstitutionally raising the property taxes. -Dear Industry, Oh ok. Take away our jobs, pollute our land, create ungodly smells that give us headaches, and then make us pay MORE for it! Cripes! It only hurts when I breathe! fuckers. Anyway, Suzanne got caught up in the industrial revolution herself in the mid-nineties when she became a semi tractor-trailer driver. She loves big machinery and how it works. But trucks are pretty easy to drive (not back up) so after a couple of years she realized she wanted to move her body more than machinery. So she went back to school to become a dancer at 26 years old! And didn't graduate until she was 30 or 31, can't remember. So if yer thinkin about changing your career, she's here to say DO IT!!! It's worth it. Like I was supposed to know what I wanted to do with the rest of my life at 18! ppfff.

She has been an artist in residence at Links Hall for the creation of the piece "In Her" that was part of an evening length work called "Heroine". Suzanne was in the audience at an Oprah show last year and opened up about the sexual abuse she survived as a child. The show Heroine will address the effects of sexual abuse on women in their adult lives and will create awareness about the issue. We cannot change it if we can’t even talk about it. Sexual abuse ruins lives and it happens to 1 in 4 women! It's a world wide epidemic and it starts with the attitude that women are lesser than men. uh yeah, I can back that up. doy. She loves dancing for Breakbone because they are challenging that attitude with every move.