November 27: Weld Company+Shannon Cooney (CA)
Shannon Cooney’s dance practice Dynamic Expansion, is a somatic approach to movement exploration melding contemporary dance with the phenomenon of the craniosacral system.Moveable Cinema is a practice within in the practice which explores movement with heightened perception of the visual field.
Her choreographic process is aligned to a research, inquiry based practice. In recent years she is engaged in creating installation hybrid performances challenging the notion of traditional linear story-telling narrative. She is creating performances which address narrative through the structures of real-time action and how these create and shape a space.
In answer to this invitation to work with the company Weld, they will explore these somatic movement mandalas, in their week together. A clear aspect to this work is its transmutability from practice into performance.
Participating this evening: Caroline Byström (SE), Robin Dingemans (NZ/GB/SE), Sybrig Dokter (NL/SE), Noah Hellwig (SE), Disa Krosness (SE), Josefine Larson Olin (SE) and Anna Westberg (SE)
Active members of Weld Company 2015: Caroline Byström (SE), Robin Dingemans (NZ/GB/SE), Sybrig Dokter (NL/SE), Marie Fahlin (SE), Noah Hellwig (SE), Disa Krosness (SE), Josefine Larson Olin (SE), Sandra Lolax (FI), Per Sacklén (SE), Hanna Strandberg (SE), Andrea Svensson (SE) and Anna Westberg (SE)
SHANNON COONEY (CA)
is a Canadian choreographer and dancer and dance educator, based in Berlin, Germany since 2006, received a B.F.A honours/dance at York University, Toronto in 1992. Since 1993 her choreography 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-Joseé Chartier, Peggy Baker, and Louise Bedard.
Shannon performed in installation works of Visual artists Marla Hlady (CA), Signe Theill (DE), Jan Komarek (CH,) Heidi Sill (DE) 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 (HZT) in Berlin, as well as a choreographer and artistic coach for circus artists.
Her recent choreographic projects include: every one everyone (2013), acoustic sightlines (2012), Assemblages (2011) and dance-video installation, Spiral Pendulum: dance (2009).
WELD COMPANY
Weld Company – initiated by Weld 2013 – is aiming to rediscover and revaluate the format of the Dance Company and is updating the Company through a collective work conducted by one of Weld clearly given structure. Dancers and choreographers from different backgrounds share a common, daily and physical practice and raise questions on dance and choreography today.
Every year, new company members are invited at the same time last years company proceeds to exist.
An important ambition is to thoroughly document, discuss and present issues, processes, conclusions and results that comes along the way. Through public performances, talks and the yearly publication “No Talking No Props”. But also on the company blog company.weld.se