The Sunshine Coast Dance Society is excited to present for its fifth annual dance residency, two amazing dancers and choreographers, Laura Hicks and Sara Coffin. The dancers will combine their skills and experience to offer the Coast a dynamic and intimate experience in contemporary dance.Every year the society looks for dancers and choreographers who would like to come to the Coast to work in the Heritage Playhouse for a week in residence. During that week, the artists create new works, provide workshops for local dancers and perform at the end of the week in a full-length dance show.
According to the society, it was a tough choice this year to pick the artists in residence from the line-up of interesting artists who applied.
Coffin and Hicks are professional dancers working in Vancouver.
Coffin is originally from Nova Scotia and teaches contemporary dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Vancouver, where she also administers and facilitates the dance program. She was the 2005 recipient of the B.C. Emerging Dance Artist Award and is also a co-founder of SINS (sometimes in Nova Scotia) dance collective.Hicks hails from Toronto and has trained and performed across Canada. She leads a monthly artist presentation series where she teaches and facilitates Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process.As part of the week-long residency, the Playful Voices workshop is an all-abilities creation and performance opportunity. Combining their diverse skills and experience, Coffin and Hicks offer a five-day intensive workshop to dancers of all kinds. Focusing on creating dances that maintain a high level of professionalism and are suited to your own body, participants learn unique tools that are accessible to dancers and performers of any age or experience. New movers will be challenged by tasks that require them to learn and remember choreography, while experienced dancers will find new meaning in unexpected movement.The workshop runs from Monday, Sept. 1 through Friday, Sept. 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information or to register, call Brittany at 604-886-9444 or email [email protected] week culminates in the Moving Voices performance at the Heritage Playhouse Theatre on Sept. 6 at 8 p.m.
