Heather Coker

Heather Coker Hawkins is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines the vocabularies of dance and cinema to translate ideas into action. The work takes the shape of screen dance, live performance, and installation. She uses personal experience focusing on relationships and the sensations of living in a human body that feels pain, does not fit, and is searching for something just out of reach. As a modern dancer and experimental filmmaker, there is tension between moving and sitting. This work invites its participants to consider the tensions present in their own lives and bodies.

Coker Hawkins' work has been shown in film festivals, galleries, museums, and live performance venues.