Compositional Improvisation
with Anne Cooper
Second Thursday of the month
(eg., Jan 13, Feb 10, etc.)
7-9pm
Ready to dance, but not ready to forgo the distancing layer of protection against COVID-19?
In this class you can expect to train and dance in spherical space, warming up your your body and improvisational mind to dance in community without physical touch. Physical principles and a variety of approaches to composition will be explored through scored and unscored improvisations.
Dancers: Olivia Shaffer, Diego Romero, Anne Cooper, Walter Kubanek, Delia Brett
Teaching Bio:
Anne Cooper has been a company member of EDAM since 1994, and has also danced with Chick Snipper, Helen Walkley, Mascall Dance and many other companies as well as creating and producing her own work. She has researched and performed in Nancy Stark Smith’s (one of the founders of Contact Improvisation) ‘Glimpse’ projects. She has taught CI since 2001 at EDAM, in Vancouver and other locales. Anne has trained with many CI teachers including Peter Bingham, Jaci Metivier, Nancy Start Smith, Chris Aiken, Andrew Harwood and others as well as some study with Steve Paxton (the instigator of Contact Improvisation/1972, and of Material for the Spine.)