Sara Coffin
is a mobileunit working independently, collectively, collaboratively and whole heartily within the realm of movement.
Sara is the recipient of the Iris garland Emerging Choreographers Award (2009) and the 2005 BC Emerging Dance Artist Award, awarded by the Holy Body Tattoo Dance Company. She completed her BFA in dance at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts, and her Kinesiology degree (BSc K) from Dalhousie University. Currently Ms. Coffin teaches contemporary dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and acts as assistant programmer for the dance program.
Sara has worked as an apprentice/understudy with The Holy Body Tattoo in their work "monumental." Other notable artists she has worked with include Daelik of MACHiNENOiSY, Mascall Dance, Susan Elliott, Kinesis Dance, Susan Lee and Leeward Dance, Lesandra Dodson, Deborah Dunn, Peter Chin, and the TILT sound + motion dance company. Coffin was the recipient of the BC Arts Council Senior Scholarship Award for choreography (2002), and The Pat Richards Choreographic Award (1999,1998). Sara has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council for professional development and in-studio research/creation.
Coffin's work has been presented throughout Nova Scotia, in Toronto, Victoria and Vancouver; including Dancing on The Edge Festival (Vancouver), ROMP! (Victoria), Dances for a Small Stage , 12 Min Max, Toronto's 808 series, with TILT's Choreographic Workshop (Toronto) and Video-In (Vanouver).
Sara is s co-founder for SINS dance (sometimes in Nova Scotia), a dance collective that traverses Canada. As a choreographer Sara is interested in the vulnerability of the human body and our connection and function to technology as a society.
What the press says:
...demonstrates great power in her performance -Jan Degrass, Coast Reporter, Friday August 22, 2008
Coffin is a solid mover who creates a daring mood by pushing her body farther and farther resulting in a frantic ending which shows us the limits of human movement. Plank Magazine, July 27, 2008
Coffin - is the entrée, meatier, thought-provoking and fulfilling. -Andrea Nemetz, Halifax Herald, June 4 2004
