• Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size

Choreography

  • 2009 - Trust Me, solo dance by Shannon Cooney, „The Word is Moving“ Cuirt Festival Galway, Ireland.
  • 2009 - Spiral Pendulum: dance, performance/video installation, York Quay Gallery, Toronto. Conceived, performed, and video, Shannon Cooney
  • 2008 - Wax and Wane, and Shlaftoeter, within Wolfsgeheul collaborative multi-arts performance, created by Alex Nowitz. Compositions by Alex Nowitz and Sabine Vogel, Video by Jamie Griffiths, Choreography and performance by Shannon Cooney. Fabrik, Potsdam.
Read more...
 

Performing-Collaborations


  • 2009 - Installation/performance by Vania Rovisco, Bridge on a Wall,
    Gallery Tristesse Delux, Berlin
  • 2008 - Curtain Machine, installation performance by visual artist Marla Hlady, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 2007 - Untitled Solo, LaborGras Berlin Choreography Benoît Lachambre
  • 1994-2006 - Company Dancer, DANCEMAKERS, Toronto, Ontario, Artistic director Serge Bennathan. Touring performances extensively in Canada, Europe, South America, North Africa and the United States.
  • 2005 - Canadian Dance Collective Platform 33, Presented by DanceWorks, Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto. Choreography by Kim Itoh, Shelf Life, Damian Munoz, L’Avenir, Louise Bedard, Seven Ways to Tell Time.
Read more...
 

Education

  • 1992 - Bachelor of Fine Arts-Honours-Major in Dance, York University, Toronto.
Read more...
 

Film and other media

  • 2009 - Artistic Advisor, 12 Pieces of Stuff, Marco Paoletti juggler/object manipulator, Helsinki, Finland, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009 - Social Balance Research, Strictly Berlin 2009, photograph installation with Signe Theill. Concentart E.V. Berlin
  • 2008 - Gulliver Dreaming, video installation with Signe Theill, Hellerau-Dresden, Europäisches Zentrum der Kunst.
  • 2008-2009 Artistic Advisor, Choreographer, Rehearsal director for Circus Artists in the show My Life, Chamäleon Theatre, Berlin
  • 2005 - Choreography for the Populars’ Music Video, Hurry Up and Die.
Read more...
 

Teaching

  • 2010 Damaged Goods/Meg Stuart, Tanz Fabrik Berlin, cie. Toula Limnaios, CND Lyon, Le Pacifiqu CDC Grenoble, Circuit-Est Montreal, Dance House Dublin, P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, KIM Physical Theatre
  • 2009 Damaged Goods/Meg Stuart, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Toula Limnaios, LaborGras, KIM Physical Theatre (Berlin), Dance House Dublin, Ireland, Le Pacifique CDC a Grenoble, France, Dancemakers, Toronto.
  • 2006 - Sasha Waltz and Guest‘s Berlin. cie. „Toula Limnious“, LaborGras, Berlin
  • 2007 - Hub 14, Toronto
Read more...
 

Awards

  • 2008, 2007, 2002, 2001 - Toronto Arts Council. Grants to Choreographers
  • 2010, 2008, 2006, - Canada Council for the Arts
Read more...
   



Shannon CooneyPhotograph by Cylla von Tiedemann