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NEWS
The “Tomorrow, After All”, film version will be finished shortly and we are seeking venues or dance-on-screen festivals for future viewing. This dance work was premiered in May 2025 as co-creative collaboration with dance artists of the SKH Stockholm University of the Arts Dance performance. This was made with film makers Måns Heldin and Luciano Quinteros, and costumes by Clara Birnbaum-Panzerhielm. It’s a landscape work, and cinematic dance experiment with referencing film techniques of planned sequences for Wide Shots, and composition of distance and time.
Montreal TBC: Film screening of “Fluid Resilience process Documentary”. While in Montreal at the end of January 2026 teaching a dance workshop in Circuit-Est and guiding the Practice of the Practitioner workshop, we are finalising a screening of this film which premiered at the Digital Arts Centre, co-operatively produced by the Ottawa Dance Directive in September 2024. Stay tuned for announcement coming soon in the next Newsletter.
Workshops
Berlin Dynamic Expansion™ Weekend Workshop
This weekend long workshop Saturday and Sunday November 29-30, at Dock 11offers the depth of stillness into riding the waves of the fluid body in connection to self, other and the environment. This focus and attention this affords creates the possibility to take these practices into your own movement, dance, and creative flow.
Dock 11 Moveable Cinema Dynamic Expansion weekend workshop
November 29-30th, 2025
DOCK 11, Saal 2. Kastanienallee 79,10435 Berlin
to register:
Circuit-Est, Montreal
Announcing with great pleasure that my teaching practices will return to Montreal at Circuit-Est at the end of January, 2026. Do come and and explore how sensation and relationship to self, other and environment can expand and be refined.
January 26-30, 2026
TO REGISTER:
Circuit-Est January 2026
ANNOUNCING
MONTREAL 2026
Practice of the Practitioner: a guide to hand on bodywork from a Craniosacral perspective
First time to offer the workshop: Practice of the Practitioner: a guide to hands on bodywork from a craniosacral perspective, in Canada. This is being organized together with Kate nankervis, and Coral Short and will be in LA POÊLE
recherche/rencontre/création 5333, rue Casgrain, #307, Montréal, QC, H2T 1X3
Practitioner workshop MTL 2026
BERLIN TEACHING
Dynamic Expansion™ Moveable Cinema Profi Training
October 20-24, 2025 morning classes 10-11:30
A week long, morning class in the profi-training structure at Tranzfabrik,Mörkernstr. 68 Kreuzberg. Expanding the felt sense of fluid dynamic in the fluid body- from my practice of Dynamic Expansion,™ layered with performance practices of Moveable Cinema.
For more info:
Profi Training Tanzfabrik Berlin
TANZFABRIK-BERLIN Tanzfabrik Kreuzberg gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Möckernstr. 68 D-10965 Berlin
ELDOA™
Since 2022 i am a practicing certified ELDOA™ Trainer, which is a unique and complex fascial stretching and strengthening technique. I am integrating this work into my private Craniosacral practice, and offering private and semi-private classes. Please contact me if you are interested
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TRIBUTE
April Hickox
It is with pure gratitude for having shared precious time in a life that I wish to honour my dearest friend and early art-mentor April Hickox who died on 15.08.2025, peacefully surrounded by family and beloved friends in her Toronto Island home.
To read about her work further: April Hickox
From her faculty at OCAD: April Hickox 2025 OCAD
April had a profound impact on my early work as a choreographer in Toronto. She a photographer, who appreciated dance.I had so many questions around the body in art; how can dance and visual arts/performance art meld? Must a body be an object? How can dance inhabit spaces other than stages? Can dance inhabit spaces where an audience is free to roam rather than be fixed in seats in the dark of a theatre? How can viewer come in closer and experience a shared space and therefore shared experience? How could I address time, and not theatrical time? In 1998, I had a wish to make a work with a visual artist, addressing themes of; “Women’s Work”, time and installation. April was key in encouraging me to “just start!”, to apply for support, articulate ideas in writing, and build a production with producer Mimi Beck of Danceworks. In 1999 I premièred Woollen in Toronto. Collaboration with Janet Morton, textile artist, performers and co-knitters Kate Alton, Julia Aplin and Carolyn Woods, Costume Caroline O’Brien, and music Music Erine Tollar.
Since that time our friendship grew, she was always supportive and critical of my work both as a dancer in Dancemakers, and as a choreographer. Her daughter Alexa Hickox, film maker has always been a part of this friendship and creative art-making relationship. She and I have future projects that we are working towards, following a connection we made 30 years ago.
You can see some of Alexa’s work here: Undivided Production
Mentorship
Mentorship/Facilitation
It’s been an inspiring and nourishing adventure in facilitation with Canadian Dance Artist Kate Nankervis, who since the early spring has been studying closely my practices of hands-on work in Dynamic Expansion,™ as well as dance movement teaching practices. With thanks to the Canadian organization the “Dancer Transition and Resource Centre [DTRC]” who’s premise is to promote balance in profession dancers’ lives.
In our work together Kate’s integration of practices shared evolve into emergent forms for her own hands-on work and dance leadership whether choreographic, or group facilitation practices. She and I have also been working through work exchanges, working consciously in the current climate of arts sarcity to promote abuncance.
Dynamic Expansion™ Craniosacral-based
Private sessions in Dynamic Expansion™
Dynamic Expansion™ Craniosacral/Expanded Consciousness sessions have many benefits for wellness including: deeply easing stress, deep rest for the nervous system, increased vitality, unwinding of unwanted habits, and increased general well-being. Craniosacral also has many benefits for Health (active definition of health: as "not a state but a search for equilibrium") including; improving eyesight/vision, reduced acute pain, rehabilitation in the neural field, learning disabilities, gross and fine motor problems, developmental delays, headaches, tinnitus, TMJ syndrome, stress disorders, trauma and neurological conditions.
Craniosacral Dynamic Expansion™ is a hybrid practice which I developed incorporating 30 years of Craniosacral practices together with expanded consciousness, movement awareness and co-creative work with Nature. I work co-creatively with each client given one's individuality and needs. Please note that some themes and issues could find resolution in one session, some in three to four sessions and others over time.
Long-Distance Practice
I also practice long-distance sessions, done over audio calls, or video calls. I have received very positive feedback over the last decade, and one of the beautiful benefits of these sessions is I am able to offer continuity for my international clients or for those in Germany who do not reside in Berlin or with those that prefer to be in their private space for this one-to-one work. Please be in touch if this mode of working interests you.
I continue to develop and exchange this work with my regular clients who inspire me constantly, and I am open to welcoming new clients as my schedule permits.
SHANNON COONEY TANZ UND BEWEGUNG PRAXIS
Schlesischestr. 20, Fabrikgebäude, 4OG links , 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Public transport
U-Schlesisches Tor, 450m walking OR Bus 265 direction: S-Schöneweide, One Stop: Taborstr.
or
S-Treptower Park, walking 1,3 km or Bus 265 direction: U-Stadtmitte/Krausenstr. Three Stops: Taborstr.
Session details
Session duration:70- 90 minutes
Session fee: 120€
Please send an e-mail for session inquiries:
Craniosacral Dynamic Expansion™ Private Sessions
Sessions in this hands-on non-invasive practice last 70-90 minutes, please dress comfortably, or bring a change of clothes. For example: training pants and a t-shirt with socks. It is optimal when one's skin is covered for this work with simple clothing for example: not too many shoulder straps, no hoodies please, fancy zippers, thick jeans etc. Be sure to schedule some downtime post session, for your integration.
Cancellations
made before 24 hours notice will not be charged. Thank you for your understanding.
Termine nur nach Vereinbarung
Terminabsagen
24-Stunden-Regel. Vereinbarte Termine sind verbindlich und kostenpflichtig, falls keine rechtzeitige Absage erfolgt.
Herzlichen Dank für Ihr Verständnis
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Wishing you very well.
As always, grateful for your support,
SHANNON COONEY
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Shannon Cooney, Schlesischestr. 20
Fabrikgebäude, 4OG links
10997 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)151 504 26 223