Shannon Cooney, Canadian choreographer and dancer based in Berlin, Germany, received a B.F.A honours/dance at York University, Toronto in 1992. Her choreographic since 1993 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-Josée-Chartier, Peggy Baker, and Louise Bedard.
Shannon performed in installation works of Visual artists Marla Hlady (CA), Signe Theill (DE), Jan Komarek (CH) and performed in numerous events of performance improvisations with musicians/performers and artists. She has worked as an Artistic Director (Platform 33-Canadian Dance collective 2000-2006) she works is an artistic advisor and creative facilitator, for choreographers such as Marie-Claude Poulin; Kondition Pluriel amongst others.
Her recent teaching has been for Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Cie. Toula Limnaios, Sasha Waltz and Guest’s, LaborGras, UdK-HZT, and Tanzfabrik, Berlin, (DE) for CND Lyon and CDC le Pacifique à Grenoble, (FR) P.A.R.T.S., and Raffinerie (BE), Circuit-Est, Concordia Universtiy, Montreal, Dancemakers, ATC 808, York Universtiy, Toronto, Training Society of Vancouver, (CAN), Dance House, Dublin (IR), and ongoing at Tanzfabrik, Berlin.
