ART & EVENTS
Screendance & Performance Art Showcase
Colleen Coy has danced with professional companies in the USA, operated a dance and wellness studio for children and adults in Timor-Leste for over 14 years, is a founder of film company Mirth Creative Production, and teaches Pilates, yoga, and dance from her home studio in northern NSW Australia, as well as online.
Colleen has performed in theatre plays, musicals, dance films, performance art shows, and plays trombone and harp in local band k’Flunk.
Colleen has a well-developed interest in and experience of movement anatomy, improvisation, Contact Improvisation, Screendance, diverse cultures, nature, music, and meditation.
Her recent projects have included creating a range of solo and collaborative Screendance works, some of which have been shown at art galleries and international film festivals, as well as performing dance and teaching regional community dance workshops.
Container Dance 2023 – Nimbin, NSW, Australia
Container Dance is an experimental Screendance filmed in a shipping container turned replacement home after the original home was lost in a landslide during the February 2022 record breaking rains and widespread flooding in many northern NSW communities. Concepts of contemplation included housing un-affordability, social inequity and isolation, and the “Little Boxes” sung about by the late Malvina Reynolds in 1962.
FILM AWARDS
Patterns
“Patterns” is a dance work by local dance artists Viviane Frehner and Kimberley McIntyre, in collaboration with Phil Blackman and Colleen Coy.
Monthly Screendance
“January”, from Colleen ‘s 2023 monthly Screendance series.
This Land Opened Up
“This Land Opened Up” was collaboratively choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping and Colleen Coy, and performed by Colleen Coy, in July 2016 for the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company Summer Intensive performance in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Upcoming Events:
lil'Flunk at Great Green Cabaret
Together with local Nimbin band, lil’Flunk, Colleen will play harp and trombone to help open the Nimbin Mardi Grass’ Great Green Cabaret. Come join us for a great night of cabaret! Tickets available at Perceptio Bookstore in Nimbin.
Location: 47 Cullen Street, Nimbin, NSW 2480, Australia
k'Flunk at Nimbin Bowlo
The whole k’Flunk crew will be playing music at the Nimbin Bowlo to celebrate Mardi Grass weekend. Free entry.
Location: 25 Sibley Street, Nimbin, NSW 2480, Australia
k'Flunk at Mardi Grass
Colleen will be playing harp & trombone with local Nimbin band, k’Flunk, as part of the 2026 Mardi Grass Festival. k’Flunk was born in Nimbin under the influence of the Greek bouzouki and medical cannabis. Often eclectic, sometimes acoustic, always danceable, with influences from Irish funk to Breton grunge.
Location: Mardi Grass Indica Stage, Nimbin, NSW, 2481, Australia
Adult Dance Classes
2026 Term 2
Mondays 6:50-7:50pm
8 weeks = 04, 11, 18, 25 May, 01, 08, 15, 22 June
Contact Colleen directly to register for classes.
Location: 78 Cecil Street, Nimbin, NSW, 2481, Australia
Adult Dance Classes
2026 Term 2
Mondays 6:50-7:50pm
8 weeks = 04, 11, 18, 25 May, 01, 08, 15, 22 June
Contact Colleen directly to register for classes.
Location: 78 Cecil Street, Nimbin, NSW, 2481, Australia
Youth Dance Classes
Ages 11-16
2026 Term 2
Mondays 4:15-5:05pm
8 weeks = 04, 11, 18, 25 May, 01, 08, 15, 22 June
Contact Colleen directly to register for classes.
Location: 78 Cecil Street, Nimbin, NSW, 2481, Australia
Kids Dance Classes
Ages 7-10
2026 Term 2
Mondays 3:30-4:15pm
8 weeks = 04, 11, 18, 25 May, 01, 08, 15, 22 June
Contact Colleen directly to register for classes.
Location: 78 Cecil Street, Nimbin, NSW, 2481, Australia
Little Dancer Classes
Ages 4-6
2026 Term 2
Wednesdays 4:30-5:00pm
7 weeks = 06, 13, 20, 27 May, 03, 10, 17 June
Contact Colleen directly to register for classes.
Location: 78 Cecil Street, Nimbin, NSW, 2481, Australia
Past Events:
The Bolero Project
Colleen served as Rehearsal Director, gathering and preparing local Nimbin dancers to form a beautiful ensemble of 14 ladies that included mothers & daughters as young as 10 years old, to perform The Bolero at the 19th annual Nimbin Women’s Dinner, celebrating International Women’s Day in March 2026.
i-dance Japan 2025
Colleen was a featured Guest Artist at the 2025 i-dance Japan Contact Improvisation Festival in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, October 2025, where she performed and taught several dance and Screendance workshops to dancers from all over Japan, Asia, and around the world.
Dance(Lens) Festival
Colleen Coy & Leif of Nimbin were delighted to have their Screendance ‘August’ included as an Official Selection of the Dance(Lens) Film Festival that took place at Dancehouse in Melbourne, Australia in July 2025.
August was a part of “2023 Monthly Screendances,” a year-long study of our personal “frames of reference,” conceived and edited collaboratively (dancing/filming as a duet)…a personal, site-specific, seasonal reflection of land and environment.
International Women's Day
Colleen performed two Ménage dances at the Nimbin School of Arts for International Women’s Day on 07 March 2024.
Dance artists Colleen Coy, Viviane Frehner, and Kimberley McIntyre facilitated a special International Women’s Day Dance Workshop, open to all women, to celebrate women on 08 March 2024.
Dance Salon
On 07 January 2024 Colleen performed Ménage and Bolero, as well as other movement scores, as part of the Dance Salon organized by local dance artist Kimberley McIntyre at Drill Hall’s Not Yet Angels Festival in Mullumbimby.
Ménage - Nimbin Cabaret
Performance trio Ménage is a Northern Rivers based collective of dance artists: Colleen Coy, Viviane Frehner, & Kimberley McIntyre.
Ménage formed in 2018 to produce a dance theatre piece exploring sensuality & humor to a few classic songs as part of a run of northern rivers She-Rated Cabarets. All three female artists have years of extensive training and professional experience in dance, choreography, performance, and teaching.
Contact Improvisation Convergence
Colleen danced & taught “Frames of Reference – Movement & Framing: Tools for Modulating Awareness/Relationship” Screendance workshop.
Let's Pretend Gallery
Colleen Coy directed, documented, and edited a 3 hour durational live dance performance for the opening night of this gallery exhibition and showcased two of her Screendance films.
i-dance Japan 2023
As a Supporting Artist, Colleen Coy danced, performed, and taught Screendance workshops at this Japanese residential Contact Improvisation festival.
NORPA - Maker's Hub
Colleen taught a ‘Frames of Reference’ Screendance workshop at NORPA’s Maker’s Hub. Participants explored how improvisational movement can translate to crafting cinematography by practicing a series of movement exercises in the presence of a visual frame.
Li Chiao-Ping's "Painkillers"
Colleen performed with Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company in this modern dance piece, “Painkillers”, which exposes deeply suppressed feelings in an effort to both honor and exorcise pain.
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