WORKSHOPS

 

Before attending a workshop, please review the Important Info below, including what to wear/bring, waiver, values, code of conduct, FAQ’s, and accessibility info.

Please arrive 5 to 10 min before the workshop start to sign-in and change. Entry to the building is only granted 15 min before and 15 min after an activity starts.

For more information, please contact us at: info@edamdance.org.

If cost is a barrier and you are interested in attending a workshop, please email us at: info@edamdance.org.

 
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Fundamentals Workshop

Saturday, September 26th @ 12:30 - 4:30 PM
with Hayley Gawthrop

Early Bird: $70 until September 7th⁠
Regular: $92⁠

This workshop will introduce Contact Improvisation basics, providing you with the fundamentals to begin your practice. Hayley’s teaching is dynamic and physically engaging, balancing practical skill-building with open exploration. Using Contact Improvisation as a framework for inquiry, you'll move, listen, and respond — exploring questions of care, support, and flight while building confidence in the unknown. If you are new to Contact, this workshop is for you!⁠

Our Fundamentals Workshop is held three times a year in September, January and April. Please email us if you would like to be notified when registration opens for the September workshop next term.

REGISTER HERE

IMPORTANT INFO

What is Contact Improvisation?

Contact Improvisation (CI) is an improvised dance, involving non-verbal communication between bodies moving through physical contact. It is a meditation on presence and somatic awareness, as well as a play of physics using gravity, momentum, and inertia to inspire dancing together. Every moment is a collaboration with a focus on “listening” through the skin surface at the physical point of contact.

Accessibility + What to Wear/Bring

EDAM’s studio is a ground-floor wheelchair accessible studio located inside the Western Front building at 303 E 8th Ave Vancouver V5T 1S1. The studio is through the first door on the left from the main entrance. The building has two ground-floor, single-stall gender neutral washrooms, one of which is accessible. There is a small lip on the front door of the building as well as on the inside door for the entrance to the studio.

EDAM is closest to transit stops at Broadway/Main (Buses: 8, 9, 19, 99). There is free street parking in the neighbourhood (check for hour-limits and permit signs) around Dude Chilling Park. Bike racks are located at the entrance to the building.

Please arrive 10 to 15 min beforehand to change and sign-in. Entry to the building is only granted 15 min before and 15 min after an activity starts.

We recommend bringing a water bottle and wearing long sleeves, pants, and layers for changing body temperatures. You may wish to wear light kneepads. EDAM sells dance kneepads at the studio for $40. To help us keep the space scent-reduced, please refrain from wearing scented products. Outside shoes are not permitted in the dance studio.

Membership

  • To participate in activities at EDAM, you must be a member.

  • If you are new to EDAM, please purchase a membership along with your registration.

  • EDAM Membership is a lifetime membership (one-time $5 membership fee).

Waivers

Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy

  • Admin Fee: There is a non-refundable $10 admin fee for all workshop cancellations. This helps us cover the cost of managing cancellations.

  • Cancellations made at least 4 working days (Monday to Friday) in advance of the workshop start date are 100% refundable, minus the admin fee. Please email us.

  • Cancellations made 48 hours in advance of the workshop start date are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please email us.

  • Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance of the workshop date are non-refundable.

  • If you know you will not be attending the workshop (for any reason) you may give your spot to a friend. Please email us.

  • Sick Policy: We understand and respect that sickness happens unexpectedly. Cancellations made due to illness are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please email us.

  • EDAM reserves the right to cancel the workshop for any reason. Registered participants will be contacted and full refunds will be issued.

  • EDAM reserves the right to change the teacher if the booked teacher can no longer attend. Registered participants will be contacted and may request a refund if they no longer wish to attend the workshop with the new teacher.

EDAM gratefully acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples; the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, on whose traditional, stolen and occupied territories we live and work.