EDAM is a contemporary
dance company
dedicated
to the investigation
of movement as
an expressive
art form. The company supports
many possibilities
for
creative
expression
through
the
creation
and
production
of
choreography
and the practice
and presentation
of the art of improvisation.
The teaching
arm of EDAM is committed
to the
development
of Contact
Improvisation,
improvisation
and contemporary
dance.
Each
season,
the company hosts a number of special
workshops
and intensives.

Performance
taught

by Marc Boivin,
Peter
Bingham
and Andrew Harwood.
A series
of classes
in which
workshop
participants
learn to prepare
themselves
for a
performance.
Topics
covered
will
include
acquiring
an awareness
of space and time,
learning
about
internal
and
external
architecture,
integrating
your dancer· s body
and recognizing
and working
with
your
energy
as a performer.
Instructors
wil
offer
suggestions
and feedback
based on their
own
experiences
as performers.
PARTICIPANTS MUST BE PREPARED TO PRESENT A 3
MINUTE SOLO, EITHER IMPROVISED OR CHOREOGRAPHED.

I rHl[E
Morning Technique
taught
by Marc Boivin.
A comprehensive
modern dance

Contact

class.

Improvisation

taught

by Peter
Bingham
and Andrew Harwood.
Instruction
from two of
teachers
around!
Classes
individual
sourcing,
ensemble
elements
of composition.

the best contact
will
focus
on
improvisation
and

Working with Music
taught

by Coat Cooke
and Ron Samworth.
A workshop about the integration
and dance through
improvisation.

of

music

Andrew Harwood is acknow1edged as one of North
America's
finest
performers
and teachers
of
Contact
Improvisation.
He has an extensive
career
as a soloist,
performing
in both
irnprovi sed and choreographed
work in Canada,
the United
States
and Europe.
In addition
to
creating
his own work, Andrew has danced with
the
Marie
Chouinard
Dance Company and La
Fondation
Jean-Pierre
Perreault.
He has
recently
worked with
Paul-Andre
Fortier
and
Tedd Robinson.

Peter
Bingham
is an accomplished
performer
and teacher
of Contact
Improvisation.
For the
past twenty
years he has performed
and taught
in numerous festivals
and workshops across Canada
and in the United
States.
He is the Artistic
Di rector
of EDAM, a Vancouver
based company
that performs
and produces choreographed
shows
and improvisations.
Marc Boivin
is a talented
performer
who works
Pxtensively
with
independent
choreographers
J n-Pierre
Perrault,
Louise
Bedard and Tedd
Robinson.
He has danced
as a member
of
O Vertigo
and Groupe de la Place Royale.
His
training
is extensive
and includes
modern
ballet
and gymnastics.
Since 1987 he has taught
modern technique
at LADMII.
Coat
Cooke
is
an instrumentalist
and a
composer.
He is the founder of Canada's leading
large
improvising
ensemble,
the NOWOrchestra.
He is currently
the Co-Artistic
Director
of
this
group,
which has had three
CD releases.
Coat has worked with dance for over ten years,
both
comp o s i n g for
set
choreography
and
improvising
in live
performances.
Ron Samworth
is a high profile
presence
of
the Vancouver
improvised/
contemporary
music
scene.
His multi-disciplinary
work includes
composition,
performance,
sound design
for
theatre,
spoken
work.
film
and a longtime
collaboration
with
EDAM. He is Co-Artistic
Director
of the NOWOrchestra and the founder
of his own group, Talking Pictures.

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EDAMgratefully

acknowledges

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the support

NAME

Section.

of the Dance

Canada Council,

Government of British

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Columbia

through the BC Arts Council.
the City of Vancouver.
Vancouver Foundation.

PHONE
The cost of the EDAMSUMMER
INTENSIVE
2000 is $500 plus GST. To reserve your
place complete this form and send it,
along with a non-refundable
cheque or
money order for $200 to:

EDAM

303 East 8th Ave
Vancouver,

BC

VST 1S1
(604) 876-9559
edamdance@bigfoot com

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