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Choreography

"Seeking to source the intimate, the expansive, essential self. Partnering in collaboration with other artists, art forms, spaces, and mediums. Connecting to the witnesses, audience, in a transformative experience, subtle or explosive. These are my current set of desires in dance.” Shannon Cooney

The following video clips extend through a range in time and offer a glimpse of a small selection of Cooney's solo works and groups pieces.

 

 

Trust Me

Trust Me
2009
Choreographer/Dancer: Shannon Cooney

Trust Me
Click here to watch video excerpt [3:50] "Shannon Cooney in Trust Me".

Trust Me, was commissioned by Tanya McCrory, Galway for ,,The Word is Moving”, Literary Arts Festival Galway, Ireland. Derived from the following quote:

“The first sentence of every novel should be: ‘Trust me this is going to take time but there is no order here, very faint, very human.’ Meander if you want to get to town.”

Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), Canadian novelist. ‘Palace of Purification,’ bk.2, In the Skin of a Lion (1987).

 

Spiral Pendulum: dance

Spiral Pendulum: dance [dance/ video installation]
2009
Shannon Cooney

Spiral Pendulum: dance
Click here to watch video excerpt [11mins] "Shannon Cooney, Spiral Pendulum: dance".

Spiral Pendulum: dance addresses themes of intimacy, performance and presence. Through a repetitive and self-sustaining movement, the performer verbally reports from a state of body-level consciousness. What influences the performer’s experience is the immediacy of the space wherein the performance takes place and all matter contained within it –the here and now of the space.

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Good Night Josephine

Good Night Josephine, Dance
Feb. 2003
Director:
Shannon Cooney, Performers: Shannon Cooney and Rob Abubo, Costume: Normand Vandal, Composer/Musician: Dale Morningstar, Text/Singer : Gordon Downie

Good Night Josephine
Click here to watch the video excerpt (15:03) "Shannon Cooney in Good Night Josephine by Shannon Cooney".

   
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