Sara Coffin is an independent dance artist, choreographer, dance educator, and  Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance for over a decade. She holds a MFA in Choreography from Smith College (USA), BFA in Dance from Simon Fraser University, and Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Dalhousie University. 

The matrix of her twenty-five year teaching practice includes college level academia, professional training programs, dance studio setting in recreational or pre-professional programs, within the public school system, workshop intensives, and master classes as a guest artist. Her extensive portfolio includes adjunct faculty for the five-college consortium in Massachusetts, and guest lecturer/artist at NSCAD, Holland College School for Performing Arts, and Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala City. Sara's teaching philosophy includes conceptual-based learning models that leverage the creativity of her students, somatic-based moving practices for learning functional anatomy, and harnessing one's momentum and power for articulating weight flow and floorwork use.  Sara has taught at Halifax Dance since 2011 and was the Young Company Co-Artistic Director from 2018-2020.