Love Sessions

when & where
April 25, 2026 at 12:00-2:00pm ET
C-space
101 Florence Street, Toronto, ON M6K 1P4

April 26, 2026 at 1:00-3:00pm ET
The Railpath Arts Centre (TRAC), studio 2
35 Golden Ave Suite 108, Toronto, ON M6R 2J5

accessibility
C-space on Florence has an accessible entrance with an automatic door and accessible washroom. The mainspace has a 2.5-inch rise to access the dance floor and is negotiable for mobility device use. There are changing rooms, a kitchen with a fridge, and water access. It has an accessible entrance and non-gendered wheelchair accessible washroom. 

The Railpath Arts Center has an accessible entrance and the studios and washrooms are accessible to wheelchair and mobility device users. The closest public transportation are the 506 and 505 streetcars, with stops at Dundas West & Sorauren Ave or Howard Park.

There will be 2 ASL Interpreters at the session.

If there is anything we can do to help someone access this space, please email us at info@tolovein.com.

about the sessions
𝑫𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏™ is an embodiment-based dance/movement practice. This approach invites participants to perceive and connect with the fluid body. By attuning oneself sensorially and physically to the flowing movement dynamics of the craniosacral system and its phenomena of stillness, a unique approach to movement research emerges.

The performance practice 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒂 deepens the perceptual connection to the visual field. It pursues a cinematic approach to movement, expanding tools for the performance of being seen. This session opens up a space of experience for deep connection, sensory refinement, and the discovery of new movement patterns. Participants will engage in guided movement meditations and improvised compositions inspired by the natural dynamics of water, as well as live cinematic observations. These explorations will take place in autonomous, non-contact partner and group formats.

who is this for
Multi-generational dance and movement-based performers, movers with interest in embodiment, post-injury movers, curious movers, bodyworkers... All levels of experience are welcome.

about the artist
Shannon Cooney (she/her), Canadian dancer, choreographer, facilitator and dance educator. She has been co-producing and presenting her choreography internationally since 1992. She’s performed in several choreographers’ works, improvisations, and from 1994-2006 she danced and toured with Toronto-based Dancemakers. She has been practicing Craniosacral since 1996.

Berlin-based since 2006 she developed her teaching practice; Dynamic Expansion™ and  Moveable Cinema: a melding of dance with Craniosacral principals. Her recent choreographic works include Fluid Resilience (2020-2024) Fielding: solo with Cases (2018), Fielding (2017), every one everyone (2013), Assemblages (2011) and installation, Spiral Pendulum: dance (2009).

She teaches locally and internationally for dance centres, companies and universities, at festivals and for the general public. As a creative facilitator she mentors students at all levels as well as for individual artists and collectives. She has a private practice where she facilitates resilience through expanded consciousness co-creatively with Nature, craniosacral practice and movement.

pricing
Regular pricing for Love Session is $25. We strive to provide pay-what-you-can access, varied accessibility measures, and a welcoming environment. Love-In offers a pwyc sliding scale by using the discount codes. You can find details below to help you decide how much to pay.

discount codes & donation options
ABUNDANT — add donation, no discount code used at check out
SUPPORTER — add donation, no discount code used check out
REDUCED — 25% off
SOLIDARITY — 50% off
ACCESS — 100% off (contact info@tolovein.com for barrier free registration)

about our pricing model
We offer a pwyc sliding scale by using the discount codes listed below at checkout. We ask that community members with a consistent income or salary pay at the regular price so that we can support community members with less access to income, wealth, or assets to attend barrier free. Thank you for locating yourself where best represents your economic situation and paying accordingly. This supports making our programs available to more folks for years to come!

abundant
This rate reflects a medium increase on the rate for the session. If you have access to a salary, savings, investments, assets, or generational wealth, paying this rate will subsidize the attendance of someone for whom cost is a barrier to attending. If you are moved to donate $10 or more, there is an option to do so.

supporter
This rate reflects a moderately increased rate for the session and will allow us to partially subsidize the attendance of folks for whom cost is a barrier. Please add a donation of $5 if you have access to a salary, savings, investments or assets. 

regular
This rate reflects the regular cost for the session. Please select this rate if you have access to a regular income and are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation.

reduced
This rate reflects the reduced cost for the session. Please select this rate if you are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation, but have gaps in your income and no access to savings or familial financial support.

solidarity
This rate reflects the solidarity cost for the session. Please select this rate if you are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation, but don't have access to regular income.

access
The option to access this session at no cost ensures that members of our community for whom price is a barrier to participation are able to join us. Please email us at info@tolovein.com to receive this option.

acknowledgements
Toronto Dance Love-In is thankful to gather on the traditional Indigenous territory of Tkaronto. This is the ancestral and unceded land of the Wyandot people, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize them and any other Nations acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded as the past, present and future caretakers of this Land. We are grateful to the Elders and Story-keepers who have been telling the story of this Land for generations. At Love-In, we are actively learning how to honour and upkeep the protocols of this territory and live in alignment with the treaties of this region. With these words we honour the Land and its caretakers. We commit to challenging the ongoing injustices and the impact of colonialism by providing spaces that operate from an anti-oppressive, social justice perspective.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts and Toronto Arts Council for their generous support.

Photography by Fran Chudnoff