Suspendida was a multi-media performative installation which performed at Richard Foreman's Ontological/Hysteric Theatre as part of the Outside/Input series in May 2005.

The piece dealt thematically with the idea of emigration. A young woman is transported through memory from her home as a young woman to a new country, a 'new web of an old spider.' While the piece contained traditional theatrical elements, it was not a traditional theatrical piece. Employing various means of storytelling, music, movement, poetry, etc. the piece evolved as a living installation ebbing and flowing like the tides.

The lighting design was kept quite simple. The primary means of illumination was a number of bare lightbulbs that sat on the floor. Additionally there were lightbulbs on the ground not plugged in, both to expand the space and reflect the light from the bulbs, thus creating a star field on the ground through which the dancer had to navigate. The setting was constructed out of several pieces of flowing white fabric that billowed and streached with the dancer's movement.

The lights did a slow build over several minutes at the beginning of the piece, a new dawn. An awakening. As the piece build the lights began to pulse in and out, breathing, sometimes in time with the flowing of the fabrics, sometimes playing against it.

The piece concluded with a poem, incorporated into the soundscape, and a short video segment projected onto the fabrics and dancer who was now bound inside the fabric like a spiders web.

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