shannon cooney @ the school of dance

SHANNON COONEY @ THE SCHOOL OF DANCE
From August 26 to 30, during
summer school, we will welcome
special guest Shannon Cooney
teaching daily from 10:45am to
12:15pm.
Read about it…below
This is part of summer school…and
open to professionnals at $15 per
class (pro rate)
Du 26 au 30 août, durant notre stage
d’été, nous acceuillerons Shannon
Cooney, artiste invitée spéciale qui
enseignera quotidiennement de
10h45 à 12h15.
Lisez ci-dessous… de plus amples
renseignements.
Ceci fait partie du stage d’été…et est
ouvert aux professionnels à 15$ par
classe (tarif professionnel)
In collaboration with Ottawa Dance Directive ODD/centre de danse contemporaine
Teaching: Contem porary Dance/Dynam ic Expansion :
The dance practice Dynamic
Expansion, created by Shannon
Cooney dancer, choreographer and
craniosacral practitioner, connects
one to the physical phenomenon of
their Craniosacral (C/S) system and
amplifies it through movement and
dance via improvisational forms.
Dynamic Expansion offers many
possible applications to one’s
personal artistic/creative work
practice including: a vibrant
palette/range of movement
qualities, fine-tuned visual field
perception, enhanced depth of
focus, heightened and subtle states
of presence, refined self-perception
skills, new systems of connecting
with others and, profound
experiences in the sensorial field. Biography:
Shannon Cooney, Canadian
choreographer and dancer and
dance educator, based in Berlin,
Germany, received a B.F.A
honours/dance at York University,
Toronto in 1992. Her choreography
since 1993 has been presented in
Canada, Europe the in the U.K. She
danced with Toronto-based
Dancemakers (1994-2006), artistic
director Serge Bennathan, which
toured extensively nationally and
internationally. She has worked
with several choreographers
including; Benoît Lachambre, Kim
Itoh, Peter Chin, Marie-Josée
Chartier, Peggy Baker, and Louise
Bédard.
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
Shannon performed in installation
works of Visual artists Marla Hlady
(CA), Signe Theill (DE), Jan
Komarek (CH) and performed in
numerous events of performance
improvisations with musicians,
performers and artists. Her video
work has been exhibited in galleries
in Toronto and Berlin. Shannon worked as: an Artistic Director for Platform 33-Canadian Dance
collective 2000-2006, an artistic advisor, creative facilitator for
choreographers; Kondition Pluriel-choreographer Marie-Claude Poulin and
with students of the BA dance program at the University der Kunst in Berlin,
as well as a choreographer and artistic coach for circus artists.
Her recent choreographic projects include: acoustic sightlines (2012),
Assemblages (2011) and dance-video installation, Spiral Pendulum: dance
(2009).
Her recent teaching for; Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, University of Art in
Berlin, HZT- BA dance program, Cie. Toula Limnaios, Sasha Waltz and
Guest's, Tanzfabrik, Laborgras, Berlin, fabrik Potsdam (DE) for CND Lyon, La
Roche, and CDC le Pacifique in Grenoble, (FR) P.A.R.T.S., Raffinerie (BE),
Circuit-Est, Montreal, Dancemakers, ATC 808, Toronto, Training Society of
Vancouver, (CAN), Dance House, Dublin (IR) , Studio 142, Kunstquartier
Bethanien, and ongoing at Tanzfabrik-Berlin.
INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS
Sylvie Desrosiers
Director of contemporary dance studies
Directrice des études en danse contemporaine
The School of Dance
200 Crichton
Ottawa, ON
K1M 1W2
613-238-7838
[email protected]