Fluid Resilience

Choreographer Shannon Cooney
Videographer Ben Mergelsberg
Produced by: Shannon Cooney

A reflection on the process of making and presenting a dance work inspired by Resilience Alliance's Theory and Practice. Conversations with Sr. Research Fellow Dr. Allyson Quinlan, biologist. As well as excerpts from performances of Fluid Resilience from 2020, and 2022.

Commissioned by Ottawa Dance Directive, and premiered at the Digital Arts Centre, Arts Court 2 Daly, Ottawa Ontario.

About Shannon Cooney
Shannon Cooney (CAN/DEU) is a Canadian dance artist, choreographer and teacher based in Berlin since 2006. Active for over 30 years, she has created works for the stage, installations and site-specific works. As a performer for Dancemakers in Toronto from 1994 to 2006, she has collaborated with many renown choreographers. She developed Dynamic Expansion / Moveable Cinema an approach that mixes her experience in contemporary dance, researching movement and performance, craniosacral body work and nature.

Workshop
Shannon Cooney will be giving a workshop from January 26 to 30, 2026, at Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

Moveable Cinema
Moveable Cinema is a movement/dance practice created to expand the felt-sense vision while in movement. It creates a space for tuning into one’s holistic body with the acuity of the present and is a performance enhancement practice. Moveable Cinema exists within the frame of Dynamic Expansion an integrated approach to embodying the Craniosacral System; tuning into its fluid dynamics and stillness phenomena.
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