Shannon Cooney
Moveable Cinema /Dynamic Expansion
Embodiment dance/movement practice created by Shannon Cooney
Moveable Cinema is a movement/dance practice created to expand the felt-sense vision while in movement. It empowers the mover by giving agency to interact aesthetically with the environment. It creates a space for tuning into one’s holistic body with the acuity of the present. Beyond self-oriented movement research there are practices with others that challenge and enrich subtle and powerful forms of witnessing. This becomes a vital and reliable tool for:interconnection with other persons, enhanced concentration, integrated awareness, expanded consciousness and performance.
Moveable Cinema exists within the frame of Dynamic Expansion which is an integrated and embodiment approach to orient to the Craniosacral System, tuning into its fluid dynamics and stillness phenomena grounds the practice. Tuning into and moving from the Fluid Body connects one to their deep knowing and the freedom of movement.
These practices offer many possible applications to one’s personal artistic/creative work or practice including: a vibrant palette/range of movement qualities, joy in movement, fine-tuned visual field perception, enhanced depth of focus, heightened and subtle states of presence, refined self-perception skills, new systems of connecting with self and others, profound and grounded experiences in the sensorial field.
Shannon Cooney’s biography:
Shannon Cooney, Canadian dance artist: choreographer, performer, facilitator and dance educator. She has been co-producing and presenting her choreography since 1993 in Canada, Europe and in the UK. She’s performed in many choreographers’ works, improvisations, and installations and she danced from 1994-2006 with Toronto-based Dancemakers.
Shannon has lived in Berlin since 2006 and engages in the research and development of her teaching practice; melding dance with Craniosacral principals called Dynamic Expansion, Moveable Cinema. This teaching practice is the “garden” for her choreographic projects. Her choreographies have ben co-operatively produced by Tanzfabrik Berlin since 2009. Her recent works include Fluid Resilience outdoor version (2022) Fluid Resilience (2020) Fielding: solo with Cases (2018), Fielding (2017), every one everyone (2013), acoustic sightlines (2012), Assemblages (2011) and dance-video installation, Spiral Pendulum: dance (2009).
She teaches locally and internationally for dance centres, companies and universities including: Cullberg and Weld Company, SKH University of the Arts Danscentrum Sad, Malmö, Danscentrum, Dansalliansen, Royal Swedish Ballet, Stockholm, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Universtiy of Art in Berlin, HZT- BA dance program, P.A.R.T.S. La Raffinerie, (BE) fabrik Potsdam, ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, Circuit-Est, Montreal, Dancemakers, Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD), Toronto’s Love-In Toronto, Dance House, Dublin (IR), CND Lyon, and CDC Grenoble, France, independent dance scene in Istanbul, Turkey, and ongoing at Tanzfabrik-Berlin.
As a creative facilitator she mentors students at all levels; BA, Masters and PhD candidates as well as artists and collectives some include, Kondition Pluriel-Marie-Claude Poulin, Alison Denham, with Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot, Francesca Pedulla and Lesandra Dodson.
She has a private practice where she facilitates personal and professional development through expanded consciousness, co-creatively with Nature, craniosacral and expanded movement awareness.
In Berlin, she and her life partner are stewards of an organic garden.
www.shannoncooney.org
Dates and times:
October 14-18
9:00 – 13:00
Price:
50 € registration fee
200 € total
Package deal:
In the same week Thi Mai Nguyen is teaching in the afternoons. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.
