Shannon Cooney is a Canadian dance artist: choreographer, performer, facilitator and dance educator. since 1993 she has been co-producing and presenting her choreographic works in Canada, Europe, Switzerland, Russia, India and in the UK. She’s performed in several 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 recent works include: Fluid Resilience Parcours (2024) Fluid Resilience Divided Wall (2023)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, 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 Gernoble, France for the 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 Gradiger 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 movement awareness.

In Berlin, she and her partner are stewards of an organic garden.

The HIVE residency is a project Shannon Cooney curates and creates as a space for lateral exchange between artists, creative, scientists, makers and practitioners. Working co-creatively with Nature, the HIVE attracts those with an interest and curiosity, or established practice that includes this, or a dance, movement, visual, sound art, and/or embodiment practice.