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EDAM Performing Arts Society

Early-Bird

Regular

LXCL:To participate in classes at EDAM, you must be a member. If you are new to EDAM, please purchase a membership. EDAM Membership is a lifetime membership (one-time $5 membership fee).

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<div fr-original-style="width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;"><div fr-original-style="line-height:1.5;" style="line-height:1.5;">FUNDAMENTALS WORKSHOP Saturday, September 26th 12:30 - 4:30pm with Hayley Gawthrop&nbsp; This workshop will introduce Contact Improvisation basics, providing you with the fundamentals to begin your practice. Hayley&rsquo;s teaching is dynamic and physically engaging, balancing practical skill-building with open exploration. Using Contact Improvisation as a framework for inquiry, you&#39;ll move, listen, and respond &mdash; exploring questions of care, support, and flight while building confidence in the unknown. If you are new to Contact, this workshop is for you! 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 &ldquo;listening&rdquo; through the skin surface at the physical point of contact. About HayleyHayley Gawthrop is an independent artist born and raised in Semiahmoo territory (South Surrey) and based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver). Hayley has been singing and dancing since their beginning and is passionate about gentleness, bodily autonomy, and listening with curiosity. Since 2015, Hayley has studied Contact Improvisation under Peter Bingham and has danced professionally with EDAM since 2021. StructureThis workshop will begin with a guided warm-up to deepen awareness of ourselves in relation to gravity. We will practice moving in and out of the floor with ease and efficiency. Through individual, partnered, and/or group exercises we will explore specific Contact partnering skills such as rolling point of contact, sloughing (sliding), meeting pressure (continuity of connection), weight sharing, and underdancing (offering mobile support). We will conclude with a scored improvisation, allowing time to integrate the skills we&rsquo;ve learned into dancing. LevelThis is a beginner-friendly workshop open to those who are new / newer to Contact Improvisation, and those who are looking to refresh their foundational CI skills. You are encouraged to participate in ways that feel most accessible to you. Options will be offered to modify exercises for different approaches to practice. Witnessing and resting is welcome as part of the practice. You may do as much or as little as you like. Please <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org?subject=Fundamentals%20Workshop%20Interest" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;">email us</a> if you have any questions about attending. Our Fundamentals Workshop is held three times a year in September, January and April. Please <a fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;" href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org?subject=Fundamentals%20Workshop%20Interest" style="box-sizing: inherit; user-select: auto; text-decoration-color: initial;">email us</a> if you would like to be notified when registration opens for our next workshop. If you missed the most recent workshop, our Thursday evening classes - Contact Improvisation Foundations are also a good place for beginners to start! Read more and register for classes&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.edamdance.org/classes" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a>.<p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div><hr fr-original-style="" style="clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: inherit;"> Accessibility + What to Wear/Bring&nbsp;EDAM&rsquo;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<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">To participate in activities at EDAM, you must be a member.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">If you are new to EDAM, please purchase a membership along with your registration.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">EDAM Membership is a lifetime membership (one-time $5 membership fee).</li></ul>Waivers<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">All EDAM participants (every person who attends an EDAM class, workshop or jam) agree to: <a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;box-sizing:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;" href="https://www.edamdance.org/waiver" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;box-sizing:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;">EDAM&#39;s Waiver</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.edamdance.org/values" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">EDAM&#39;s Values</a>, and <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.edamdance.org/code-of-conduct" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">EDAM&#39;s Code of Conduct</a></li></ul><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Workshop Refund &amp; Cancellation Policy<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Admin Fee: There is a non-refundable $10 admin fee for all workshop cancellations. This helps us cover the cost of managing cancellations.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">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 <a fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;" href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org" style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;">email us</a>.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cancellations made 48 hours in advance of the workshop start date are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please <a fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;" href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org" style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;">email us</a>.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance of the workshop date are non-refundable.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you know you will not be attending the workshop (for any reason) you may give your spot to a friend. Please <a fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;" href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org" style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;">email us</a>.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sick Policy: We understand and respect that sickness happens unexpectedly. Cancellations made due to illness are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please <a fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;" href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org" style="box-sizing:inherit;user-select:auto;text-decoration-color:initial;">email us</a>.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">EDAM reserves the right to cancel the workshop for any reason. Registered participants will be contacted and full refunds will be issued.</li><li fr-original-style=""><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</li></ul><p fr-original-style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div>

Hi <span data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 196); overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: inherit;">First name , Thank you for registering for our Fundamentals Workshop a beginner-level Contact Improvisation workshop&nbsp;with&nbsp;Hayley Gaewthrop&nbsp;on Saturday, September 26th from 12:30 - 4:30pm&nbsp;at EDAM. Please ensure you review the Workshop Registration and Cancellation Policy posted below. Your registration is GST inclusive. (EDAM&#39;s&nbsp;GST No.: 118902843RT0001) If you have any questions about attending the workshop, please do not hesitate to email us at: <a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;box-sizing:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;" href="mailto:info@edamdance.org" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;box-sizing:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;">info@edamdance.org</a> You will receive an email a day or two ahead of the workshop with welcome details and reminders. We look forward to dancing with you! EDAM | Experimental Dance and Music<a fr-original-style="-webkit-user-select:auto;" href="mailto:info@edamdance.org" style="-webkit-user-select:auto;">info@edamdance.org</a> ___ Workshop Refund &amp; Cancellation Policy<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">Admin Fee: There is a non-refundable $10 admin fee for all workshop cancellations. This helps us cover the cost of managing cancellations.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">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.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">Cancellations made 48 hours in advance of the workshop start date are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please email us.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance of the workshop date are non-refundable.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">If you know you will not be attending the workshop (for any reason) you may give your spot to a friend. Please email us.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">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.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">EDAM reserves the right to cancel the workshop for any reason. Registered participants will be contacted and full refunds will be issued.</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;" style="box-sizing:inherit;">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.</li></ul>

<div><div>FUNDAMENTALS WORKSHOP Saturday, September 26th 12:30 - 4:30pm with Hayley Gawthrop  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! 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. About HayleyHayley Gawthrop is an independent artist born and raised in Semiahmoo territory (South Surrey) and based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver). Hayley has been singing and dancing since their beginning and is passionate about gentleness, bodily autonomy, and listening with curiosity. Since 2015, Hayley has studied Contact Improvisation under Peter Bingham and has danced professionally with EDAM since 2021. StructureThis workshop will begin with a guided warm-up to deepen awareness of ourselves in relation to gravity. We will practice moving in and out of the floor with ease and efficiency. Through individual, partnered, and/or group exercises we will explore specific Contact partnering skills such as rolling point of contact, sloughing (sliding), meeting pressure (continuity of connection), weight sharing, and underdancing (offering mobile support). We will conclude with a scored improvisation, allowing time to integrate the skills we’ve learned into dancing. LevelThis is a beginner-friendly workshop open to those who are new / newer to Contact Improvisation, and those who are looking to refresh their foundational CI skills. You are encouraged to participate in ways that feel most accessible to you. Options will be offered to modify exercises for different approaches to practice. Witnessing and resting is welcome as part of the practice. You may do as much or as little as you like. Please <a href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org?subject=Fundamentals%20Workshop%20Interest">email us</a> if you have any questions about attending. Our Fundamentals Workshop is held three times a year in September, January and April. Please <a href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org?subject=Fundamentals%20Workshop%20Interest">email us</a> if you would like to be notified when registration opens for our next workshop. If you missed the most recent workshop, our Thursday evening classes - Contact Improvisation Foundations are also a good place for beginners to start! Read more and register for classes <a href="https://www.edamdance.org/classes" target="_blank">here</a>. </div><hr /> 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<ul><li>To participate in activities at EDAM, you must be a member.</li><li>If you are new to EDAM, please purchase a membership along with your registration.</li><li>EDAM Membership is a lifetime membership (one-time $5 membership fee).</li></ul>Waivers<ul><li>All EDAM participants (every person who attends an EDAM class, workshop or jam) agree to: <a href="https://www.edamdance.org/waiver">EDAM's Waiver</a>, <a href="https://www.edamdance.org/values" target="_blank">EDAM's Values</a>, and <a href="https://www.edamdance.org/code-of-conduct" target="_blank">EDAM's Code of Conduct</a></li></ul>Workshop Refund &amp; Cancellation Policy<ul><li>Admin Fee: There is a non-refundable $10 admin fee for all workshop cancellations. This helps us cover the cost of managing cancellations.</li><li>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 <a href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org">email us</a>.</li><li>Cancellations made 48 hours in advance of the workshop start date are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please <a href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org">email us</a>.</li><li>Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance of the workshop date are non-refundable.</li><li>If you know you will not be attending the workshop (for any reason) you may give your spot to a friend. Please <a href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org">email us</a>.</li><li>Sick Policy: We understand and respect that sickness happens unexpectedly. Cancellations made due to illness are 50% refundable minus the admin fee. Please <a href="mailto:communications@edamdance.org">email us</a>.</li><li>EDAM reserves the right to cancel the workshop for any reason. Registered participants will be contacted and full refunds will be issued.</li><li>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.</li></ul> </div>

EDAM Performing Arts Society

Fundamentals Workshop w/ Hayley - Fall '26

303 E 8th Ave

Regular

$92

EDAM Membership

$5

Early-Bird

$70

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