Mocean Dance Engages the Community at the Marigold Cultural Centre March 31 – April 5, 2019

NSTT’s 75th Anniversary Ambassadors, Mocean Dance celebrate creativity in Truro with their second creation residency series in the development of Sara Coffin’s Wild Within.

The residency runs from March 31- April 5 2019 at Marigold Cultural Centre in Truro, and culminates with an artist talk and community workshop. 

Throughout the residency, Sara Coffin, Georgia Skinner and Lydia Zimmer - past program alumnae, will be acting as ambassadors of the Talent Trust program, inspiring and informing young students, dancers and community members of the NSTT's scholarship program. 

Guests are invited into a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of dance and choreography. On April 4, the Truro community will hear a talk about Sara Coffin’s work-in-progress Wild Within. On April 5, students and community members are will partake in movement workshop, a short performance and a second artist talk focused on the creativity within Nova Scotia. 

Mocean Dance will also be hosting a benefit event on April 11 at Alderney Landing called “Heart of the Wild” in support of Wild Within. 

Mocean Dance is an award-winning contemporary dance company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. View their video compilation of past works. 

Meet Mocean Dance NSTT's 75th Anniversary Ambassadors in Annapolis Royal on Thursday, Feb 14, 2019

Talent Trust scholarship alumni: Sara Coffin, Lydia Zimmer, Georgia Skinner

King's Theatre
Annapolis Royal
Thursday, February 14 at 6:00 p.m. 
the public is invited to an Artists’ Talk and Mini-Performance.

Halifax-based contemporary Dance Company MOCEAN DANCE will be in residence at King’s Theatre from February 10-15, creating a new work.

The Mocean creation residency series is part of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust’s 75th Anniversary celebrations. Coffin, Skinner and Zimmer - past program alumnae, will be ambassadors of the Talent Trust program, to help inspire young dancers across the province, inform students of the training scholarship program, as well as offer workshops for the local high school and community members to take in a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of Inside Wild.

From King's Theatre website:

King’s Theatre is pleased to announce the creation residency of Atlantic Canada’s leading contemporary dance company, Mocean Dance from February 10-15, 2019. 

During this time, Mocean’s Co-Artistic Director Sara Coffin will work on a new creation, Inside Wild, while experimenting with new multimedia elements and set design possibilities for the new, original work.

Joining Sara are dance artists Anastasia Weibe, Julie Robert, Lydia Zimmer & Georgia Skinner as well as collaborators multimedia artist Nick Bottomly & composer/multidisciplinary artist Brian Riley as they experiment with multimedia elements and set design for the new work.

King’s Theatre patrons are invited to join some of Nova Scotia’s most innovative dance and theatre artists for a work-in-progress sharing for an intimate behind-the-scenes look at how contemporary dance is made along with an artist talk that will explore the working progress when incorporating multimedia elements to help tell a story.

King’s Theatre, 209 St George Street 

PO Box 161, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, B0S 1A0
Box Office I 902.532.7704
24-hour Info Line I 902.532.5466

Email:
General Manager
gm(at)kingstheatre(dot)ca

Sara Coffin in Public Showing of Next Wave presented by Mocean Dance, December 1-2

Sara Coffin is in Next Wave. Mocean Dance photo by Michelle Doucette.

Sara Coffin, Susanne Chui, Jessica Lowe, Julie Robert, Liliona Quarmyne, Anastasia Wiebe, and Lydia Zimmer will be joined by special guests for a public showing of Next Wave.

Presented by Mocean Dance, Next Wave is a new creative incubator program for contemporary dance artists. 

Sara Coffin. Photo: Joshua Sugiyama.

Sara Coffin received a Talent Trust scholarship to support her studies in dance. 

She’s been Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance since 2011, and recently received a 2018 Arts Nova Scotia Established Artist Recognition Award, which recognizes professional mid-career artists.

Mocean Dance is a Halifax-based contemporary dance company that creates new work rooted in collaborative process, stretches physical & emotional boundaries and finds authenticity.

In Next Wave, seven of Halifax’s next wave of dance artists will share their creative practices and explore new ideas and working methods in emergent and generative ways toward the creation of new works. 

Next Wave provides a framework for collaboration, experimentation, dialogue, peer learning and support. These two events open the process for public view.

Event details:
Decebmer 1 - 8:00 p.m.
December 2 - 3:00 p.m.

DANSpace
1531 Grafton Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2B9

Tickets available at the door:
$20/$15 students, seniors, artists 
Kids under 12 by donation

For event updates, watch the Next Wave Facebook event page.

Mocean Dance wins 2016 Masterwork Arts Award

Photo credit: Kelly Clark

Congratulations Mocean Dance on winning the 2016 Masterworks Arts Award! 

Their production Canvas 5x5 becomes the first win for “Dance” in the history of the Award.

Congratulation to all and especially to the following dancers and former NSTT scholarship recipients: Jacinte Armstrong, Sara Coffin, Rhonda Baker, and Ruth Ellen Kroll Jackson. 

For more please visit their website at moceandance.com

Jacinte Armstrong wins 2016 Established Artist Recognition Award

Photo Credit: Kate Hayter-Reid

Congratulations Jacinte Armstrong!
for receiving the 2016 Established Artist Recognition Award given by Creative NS Leadership Council.

Jacinte Armstrong is a Halifax-based dance artist who has worked with many collaborators locally and across Canada. A native Haligonian, she trained at Halifax Dance before studying at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. 

Jacinte is currently the Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio, and performs regularly with Mocean dance, SiNS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) dance, independently, and in her own work. Her choreography ranges from intimate and imagistic to large-scale collaboration with architects, filmmakers, and musicians. http://jacintearmstrong.com/

Rhonda Baker performs in 'Burnwater: Alchemy' at the Osprey Arts Centre in Shelburne from November 18-20, 2016

Burwater:Alchemy 2 min FINAL from Erin Donovan on Vimeo.


Burnwater: Alchemy, an innovative installation/performance will premiere  
November 18-20 at the 
Osprey Arts Centre in Shelburne. 
 
From Mocean Dance' press release:
'Created by Erin Donovan of Hear Here Productions (Mahone Bay) and Susanne Chui of Mocean Dance (Halifax), Burnwater: Alchemy combines percussion, dance, and poetry and features the extraordinary iron sound sculptures of Nova Scotia blacksmith John Little.

True to its alchemical name, the piece encourages the audience to go through a transformation of their own. For Donovan the piece “invites the viewer to slow down, listen deeply and reflect on their connection to the natural world.” The sound score layers recorded outdoor sounds, poetry as well as music played live on Little’s sound sculptures.

Dancer Rhonda Baker (former NSTT scholarship recipient) and percussionist Doug Cameron animate the indoor landscape by leading the audience through a series of performances and interactive installations. “It’s a very sensory experience” says Chui “The audience is experiencing everything --the set, the performers and the soundscape -- in a fully immersive way; It’s like going on a hike indoors.”

Burnwater: Alchemy runs November 18-20 at the Osprey Arts Centre. There are four performances: 
Nov. 18 at 7pm, 
Nov. 19 at 2pm and 7pm
Nov. 20 at 2pm. 
The show is limited to 30 attendees; advance purchase is recommended.

Tickets are $15 Regular, $7 Students; Tickets and information are available through Ticketpro.ca: https://secure.ticketpro.ca/?server=ww3&lang=en#def_1136233752

Congratulations Mocean Dance - 15th Anniversary! Many former NSTT Scholarship recipients will perform at...

Mocean Dance celebrates Fifteen years of dance in Atlantic Canada. Dancers that have received NSTT scholarships and are dancing during their anniversary production are Sarah Rozee, Lydia Zimmer, Jacinte Armstrong, Sara Coffin, Rhonda Baker, Vivika Ballard, Carolle Crooks Fernando, Sara Harrigan, Ruth Ellen Kroll Jackson, Lisa Phinney Langley, Veronique MacKenzie, and Georgia Skinner. For a full cast please visit their website at moceandance.com

Fifteen, runs September 22-24 as part of Live Art Dance's 2016-2017 Season at the Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Ave. Halifax. Each showing is at 8 p.m. More information at http://www.liveartdance.ca/
 
Photo credit: Michelle Doucette