Dancer, choreographer Shannon Cooney coming to Oxygen Art Centre
By Contributor
The Oxygen Art Centre will open their summer season with the arrival of multi-talented international dancer and choreographer Shannon Cooney.
Energetically titled Dynamic Expansion Cooney’s presence at the center and around town will be invigorating as Cooney brings with her a progressive pulse of the contemporary dance world from Berlin, Germany where Cooney is currently living.
While in residency for the month of June, Shannon Cooney will be working on the creation of a solo dance installation. Her intention is to use her residency to explore a new process, one that emphasizes the inclusion of everyday interactions and responses of the residency environment to effect the creation of a new dance.
This could include the involvement of other people, spaces, sounds and objects.
Throughout the month Cooney will be offering several ways to meet her and get involved in her dance process and project. She emphasizes that no experience is necessary to participate in the workshops.
The events being offered include; an artist talk on Thursday (June 4) at 7 p.m. at Oxygen, a dance workshop at the Moving Centre on June 6-7, a performance at the June 15 Nelson City Council meeting and an art event on June 29 to end the residency. More info: www.oxygenartcentre.org
Oxygen Art Centre gratefully acknowledges support for the 2015-2016 Exhibition & Residency Project from British Columbia Arts Council, Province of British Columbia and Columbia Basin Trust – Community Initiatives Program for City of Nelson.
