Sara Coffin (she/her) is an award-winning dance artist, choreographer, educator, and Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance, whose work weaves together interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation, and the study of human movement to explore vulnerability, resilience, and connection through the movement arts in both community and creative practice.
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Which ’hood are you in?
Halifax Northend
What do you do?
I run a professional non-profit contemporary dance company and have been with Mocean Dance for 15 years. For more than twenty years, Mocean Dance has provided fertile ground for artistic endeavours and potential in the field of dance. Led by Co-Artistic Directors Susanne Chui and Sara Coffin, Mocean is recognized nationally as a leading contemporary dance company from the Atlantic region.
Sharing perspectives of our region, we create opportunities to engage local artists and connect to the national performing arts milieu. Through our work and collaborations, we are an artistic catalyst and contribute to making Halifax a hotspot for creation, research, experimentation, interdisciplinary dialogue, and performance. Our programming and community engagement activities cultivate opportunities for artists to transform themselves and connect with audiences, to build community through dance and creativity.
What are you currently working on?
I am leading the 10th Anniversary of Moving with Mocean at the Halifax Central Library on January 30th at 1 pm! I am also creating two new dance pieces with older adults in our Communities in Mocean program held at Northwood Long-term Care Home and the Halifax Central Library. These works will premiere on April 1 at the Halifax Central Library.
Where can we find your work?
Often at the Central Library, Mocean Dance offers free programming and free shows. Our next free show is April 1 at 7 pm at the Central Library, entitled: Spring Blooms | The Dance of Life
