Update: The Intensive, full Mornings and full Afternoons are FULL. Limited drop-in registration is available. Please email us to register for drop-ins. Preregistration for drop-ins is required. Drop-ins on the day will not be permitted. Registration for the Saturday Workshop is still available.

Mornings: $45

Afternoons: $65

Full Day: $100

January 20 - 25, 2025

EDAM and Foolish Operations are excited to host an intensive week of training + a stand-alone workshop with four members of the Lower Left Collective: Nina Martin (Marfa, TX), Margaret Sunghe Paek (Lawrence U., WI), Karen Høybakk Mikalsen (Oslo, Norway), and Julie Lebel (Vancouver, BC)

Location: EDAM — 303 E 8th Ave
> Flexible participation available
> Workshop descriptions below
> Teaching bios and more info at edamdance.org/lowerleft
*** If space allows, drop-ins will be made available closer-to.

If you have any questions about attending, please email us at: info@edamdance.org

photo: Tina Rivera

INTENSIVE

Monday to Friday | CI in the mornings + ET in the afternoons
Early Bird: $350 until December 21st
Regular: $450
*Does not include the Saturday Workshop

For professional dancers, movement practitioners and artists; and those who are familiar with Morning Class at EDAM.

CONTACT IMPROVISATION MORNINGS
Monday - Friday | 10am - 12pm
w Nina and Margaret
5-Day Workshop

With attention to lineages, attribution, and accessibility in CI and improvisation practice, dancers will utilize materials from Nina Martin's ReWire Dancing States and other Lower Left techniques to warm up, enhancing awareness of "dancing in the gap" between preconscious and conscious movements to articulate clear physical communication and compositional approaches to weighted duets/trios. Previous experience with CI is encouraged for this class.

For professional dancers, movement practitioners and artists; and those who are familiar with Morning Class at EDAM.

Early-Bird: $175 until December 21st
Regular: $225

ENSEMBLE THINKING AFTERNOONS
Monday - Thursday | 1 - 4pm
w Nina, Margaret, Karen and Julie
4-Day Workshop

Ensemble Thinking is a system of improvisational compositional, group scores that increase capacity for collaborative creation. Dancers will explore Ensemble Thinking's principal scores to tune and refine the individual’s ability to perceive, initiate, and support collective action and create a "Big Picture" to support articulated compositions. Facilitators welcome contributions of diverse backgrounds, aesthetics, performance practices, or physical capabilities in this workshop.

For professional dancers, movement practitioners and artists; and those who are are familiar ET or improvisational dance.

Early-Bird: $210 until December 21st
Regular: $265

SATURDAY CI + ET WORKSHOP
Saturday | 12:30 - 4:30pm
w Nina, Margaret, Karen and Julie
1-Day Workshop

Saturday's workshop will summarize and review material covered during the week's intensive, including CI and ET materials, to welcome dancers who wish to be introduced or to deepen their practice.

Open-level. All welcome. Open to those who have not participated in the intensive.

Early-Bird: $70 until December 21st
Regular: $85

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

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We, at EDAM, live, work and create on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.