EDAM Dance presents new work by Peter Bingham, Emmalena Fredriksson & Michelle Olson.

Created in EDAM's studio-theatre inside WF Lodge at 303 East 8th Ave of so-called Vancouver, BC.

Presented online starting June 30, 2021 at 7pm Screening with Artist Q&A

Three new dance works:

 EDAM’s Artistic Director Peter Bingham reflects on the early days of the pandemic with a resonant new directed dance improvisation, plexi-Delirium, which gives space for the strange, peripheral, vulnerable, and playful to unfold. Building on the ensemble's research into associative vocal interjections and supported by EDAM’s creative grounds in Contact Improvisation, the dancers navigate spatial and sensorial parameters reminiscent of their passage through the pandemic. Above all, the work underscores the intrinsic care, trust, and commitment between the seven adept performers: Delia Brett, Anne Cooper, Arash Khakpour, Walter Kubanek, Alex Mah, Diego Romero, and Olivia Shaffer. Video by Chris Randle with lighting design by James Proudfoot and Taylor Janzen.

Soft Palate, created by Emmalena Fredriksson in collaboration with Hayley Gawthrop and Jessica Keeling (dance, voice) is a warm switch, a precious shattering, a vivid feel. A dreamscape not far from here. Close your eyes. Submerge yourself. Under the surface sensitive creatures thrive. Hidden, nestled, burrowing. Tantalizing costumes by Alaia Hamer, music by Linda Fox, lighting design by Taylor Janzen and Gabriel Raminhos and video by Alex Thornton. Soft Palate is a choreographic exploration on perspective and texture as experienced through three characters' journey into a dream world of subconscious reflections. 

 from the river to the length of my spinecreated by Michelle Olson in collaboration with Jeanette Kotowich and Issiah Bull Bear, is a settling into a landscape carved out by body, impulse and memory.  Leaning into these moments of isolation and distance, the resonance of the land that we stand on and the land that is deep within us becomes a more present song.   This song is what will take us from this moment to the next as we soften into the hard edges of our present reality and let go of what is necessary. We dance to the music of Wayne Lavallee, Cris Derksen, and Russell Wallace, are lit by designers Taylor Janzen and Gabriel Raminhos and filmed by Chris Randle.