EDAM Dance

05/25/2026

New workshop offering with EDAM Company Composer, Alex Mah 🎶

from ear to breath to sound
a listening and score making workshop
for curious ears (no music experience needed)

Saturday, June 13th⁠
12 - 3PM⁠
with Alex Mah
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Sliding Scale⁠
$75 - Regular Rate⁠
$70 - Supported Rate⁠
$53 - Subsidized Rate⁠

Please:
🔹 Wear comfortable clothes
🔹 Bring a notebook

This workshop is designed as a ‘music offering’ rooted in the attentional practice essential to Contact Improvisation. No music training is necessary; this will be an embodied approach to creation that aims to bring a fresh perspective to dancers, musicians, and creative beings alike. I can’t wait to share my practice with you!

Through guided scores for breath and voice, we will tune into the room and the sounds outside.

The practice of presence brings awareness to our surroundings and opens the senses, especially our ears, reinforcing our connection to others and the world around us.

We will look over a selection of experimental scores related to listening and our senses. I’ll introduce some techniques of composition and how to apply them to our ideas.

In small groups, we will create our own text or graphic scores inspired by the sensing body and explore the cyclical process of composition, interpretation, and improvisation.

Registration now open, www.edamdance.org/workshops

Photo Credit: Viviane Houle

05/21/2026

A special hello to Max Wannitikul-Walter, our upcoming Guest Host Artist for EDAM's BIPOC Jam. Max will hold the space for this ongoing BIPOC gathering, happening this Sunday.
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BIPOC Jam⁠
Sunday, May 24th⁠
3:30-5:30PM⁠
Register online - edamdance.org/jams
or drop-in $15⁠
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About Max:

Max Wannitikul-Walter is an experimental dancer, land-based educator, ceremony holder, and community weaver. Their creative practice questions how art can be used as a medium to strengthen ecological & social justice movements. To bring these questions to life, Max co-stewards the Soaring Eagle Nature School, a community of land-connected kiddos, youth, and adults.
Max is a cross-cultural being moving between the worlds and languages of urban กรุงเทพฯ (Krung Thep), Thailand and multi-layered histories of the so-called lands of Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Peoples. You can catch them riding their red bike across town, dancing at Ocean’s edge, or deep in conversation with a cookbook. ⁠

See you Sunday! 🌊

05/10/2026

No Sunday class today, May 10

Apologies for the late notice

05/07/2026

Jonathan Brussolo Intensive begins next week + new workshop with Anne Cooper -

Reminder: Any current Class or Jam Cards expire on the last day of classes. For this 25/26 year, EDAM’s last Morning Class is June 30th. Our last Sunday Class is July 19th. Cards are non-transferable, so use your class cards now! See our calendar for the full end of year schedule.

05/06/2026

New Workshop announcement at EDAM⁠! 🌱
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appreciating improvisation/contact improvisations
3 kinds of practice–Contemplative Dance Practice, Contact
Improvisation & Jamming

Saturday, May 30th
1 - 5:30pm
with Anne Cooper
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Sliding Scale⁠
$120 - Regular Rate⁠
$100 - Supported Rate⁠
$80 - Subsidized Rate⁠
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Moving between 3 kinds of practice; Contemplative Dance Practice, Contact Improvisation, & Jamming~appreciating one another's choices & responses as our improvising unfolds through these 3 supportive ways, we'll expand and develop our dancing. We'll begin with 1 hour of Contemplative Dance Practice: a simple, sitting meditation into movement practice, (developed by Barbara Dilley). From there we'll swing into Contact Improvisation study and follow this with jamming.

For the CDP (Contemplative Dance Practice), we will have chairs in the circle for sitting as well as foamies on the floor (feel free to bring a cushion). Please arrive on time as we'll begin soon after 1 pm with the sitting meditation.

This day of practice is recommended for folks with some experience in Contact Improvisation, all levels welcome.

Visit our website to register and learn more at edamdance.org/workshops

05/04/2026

Please give a warm welcome to Franny Valdez as the upcoming Guest Host of EDAM's BIPOC Jam. will facilitate this ongoing BIPOC gathering, happening on Sunday.
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BIPOC Jam⁠
Sunday, May 10th
3:30-5:30PM⁠
Register online - edamdance.org/jams
or drop-in $15⁠
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About Franny:
Franny is a q***r Afro-Latine restorative yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, and dance artist based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

They’ve been dancing and performing for over 20 years, weaving together a tapestry of experience that also includes working in ICU settings.

Their offerings are inspired by the elements, especially water, fairies, energy work, spirals, deep wells, melancholy, anatomy, musicality, their ancestors and all things ethereal, forever blurring the lines between the physical and the mystical, the grounded and the unseen.

When they’re not teaching or dancing you’ll likely find them nannying sweet toddlers, yapping with their wife or fully committed to the art of a good nap!

04/22/2026

Up next, we're so happy to welcome Alex Mah as Guest Host at the BIPOC Jam. Long time EDAM friend will take the lead this Sunday, faciliating this ongoing BIPOC gathering.⁠
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BIPOC Jam⁠
Sunday, April 26th⁠
3:30-5:30PM⁠
Register online - edamdance.org/jams
or drop-in $15⁠
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About Alex Mah:

Alex Mah is an interdisciplinary performing artist, composer-musician and CI dancer. He composes mostly weirdo experimental music and sometimes sweet songs for dance and theatre. He is grateful to have worked with EDAM/Peter Bingham for 10 years and was fortunate to be a jam musician for 300 dancers at contactfest Freiburg 2024 Europe’s largest CI festival. He is fond of folk music, loves a good cheesecake and prefers taking things slowly.

04/21/2026

EDAM is thrilled to announce a Spring Intensive, a series of workshops with Jonathan Brussolo (Argentina-Mexico) running May 11-14.⁠
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Register online at edamdance.org/jonathan-s26⁠
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Mornings / Mon to Thurs / 10am - 12pm�⁠
Relational Body⁠
• We will consider our attention as a resource that allows us a finer and more sensitive awareness of our bodies, and from which we can explore the different systems and structures of our anatomy, awakening greater presence and awareness in our physicalities…⁠what we feel becomes present.⁠
• For professional dancers and experienced Contact Improvisation practitioners.⁠
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Afternoons / Mon and Thurs / 1 - 4pm�⁠
Somatics: Layers of Contact⁠
• We will explore different layers and systems of the body, such as skin, muscles, tissues/fascia, and bones. We will develop our ability to perceive these systems using our attention, and through movement. Continuing these explorations through touch, we will discover the varied qualities of sensation and perception that can unfold with different qualities of touch.⁠
• For professional dancers and experienced movement artists, or those with a regular embodiment practice.⁠
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Evening / Thursday / 6:30 - 8pm�⁠
Thursday Evening Class⁠
• We will explore techniques that allow us to refine our internal listening of our bodies, our relationship with space, and our interactions with others.⁠
• For all levels⁠, beginners welcome.⁠
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Registration available for the full Morning or Afternoon series, or for select indiviudal days. Please register in advance. We will welcome day of drop-ins, subject to space availability. ⁠
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Sliding scale options in effect for this workshop intensive.⁠
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