Shannon Cooney

Moveable Cinema / Dynamic Expansion

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 and is a a performance enhancement practice.

Beyond self-oriented movement research there are scored improvisations with others that challenge and enrich subtle and powerful forms of witnessing. This becomes a vital and reliable tool for: interconnection with others, enhanced concentration, integrated awareness, expanded consciousness and performance.

Moveable Cinema exists within the frame of Dynamic Expansion which is an integrated approach to embodying the Craniosacral System; tuning into its fluid dynamics and stillness phenomena. Sourcing movement from the Fluid Body connects one to their deep knowing and their 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 (she/her), Canadian dance artist: choreographer, performer, facilitator and dance educator. She has been co-producing and presenting her choreography internationally since 1993. She’s performed in several choreographers’ works, improvisations, and installations including Benoît Lachambre, Vânia Rovisco, Clément Layes, Darko Dragičević u.o. From 1994-2006 she danced with Toronto-based Dancemakers and practices Craniosacral since 1996.

Berlin-based since 2006 she is engaged in the research and development of her teaching practice; Dynamic Expansion, Moveable Cinema a melding of dance with Craniosacral principals. 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 Dynamic Expansion/Moveable Cinema locally and internationally for dance centres, companies and universities, at festivals and for general public. As a creative facilitator she mentors students at all levels; BA, Masters and PhD candidates as well as artists and collectives as well as privately with one-to-one artists.

She has a private practice where she facilitates personal health 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.

Dates and times:
June 30 – July 4
Monday to Friday
9:00 – 13:00

Price:
50 € registration fee
240 € total

Package deal:
In the same week Benoît Lachambre is teaching in the afternoons. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.