CLASSES
Mon-Fri 10am-noon Professional/semi-professional class taught by Peter Bingham. Permission of the instructor required.
Mon 5:30-7 All levels of dancer welcome. Monica Strehlke, instructor.
Fri 5:30-7. All levels of dancer welcome. Monica Strehlke or Anne Cooper, instructor.
Sundays noon-2m. All levels of dancer welcome. Anne Cooper Instructor.
Jams on 1st and 3rd Sundays 7-9pm. $2 drop in, everyone welcome.
CI Mini-Festival March 24-31
Workshops with American guest artists Chris Aiken and Ray Chung
An Eco-Poetic Approach to Dance Improvisation and Performance
taught by Chris Aiken
Sat and Sun Mar 24-25 noon-5pm $150
We will explore awareness and intention through the development of perceptual acuity in relationship to our inner and outer landscapes. We will examine the delicate relationships between our poetic imagination and our sensory systems. The basis of Aiken's approach is that composition and performance are ecologically rooted acts. Our imagination grows from where and how we exist. Movement, story, image and gesture are imbedded in the relationships that are evolving all around us. Come ready to dance, perceive, perform and imagine.
Dyads, Triads and More: Contact Beyond Duets
taught by Ray Chung
Mon-Fri March 26-30 9:30am-noon $150
Using Contact Improvisation as a foundation, we will create ways to improvise dancing in duo, trio and ensemble. We will survey CI essentials, with a focust on efficient use of technical skills, to develop a facility for, and availability to, changing physical states and levels of touch and weight. We will work with strategies for moving "out of the box" of the duet form, expanding our range of choices of how to include more than one other dancer while moving seamlessly into and out of contact. Come ready for focused play and committed practice.
To register send a non-refundable $75 deposit to:
EDAM Dance, 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5T 1S1.
Please include contact information and please remember to specify which workshop you wish to take.