Rewind & Renew

March 10, 2025 — EDAM is thrilled to announce Rewind and Renew: An Evening of Archival Screenings, Dialogue, and Live Performance coming April 16, 17, 18, 2025 at 7 PM to EDAM’s Theatre at 303 E. 8th Ave.

This past year, EDAM has been working on an ambitious project to digitize a significant portion of our video archives, a collection of over 300 tapes spanning over 4 decades of creative activities. EDAM’s video archives are a truly unique and important resource, cataloguing a wide range of dance, performance, and experimentation in Vancouver.

We invite you to join us for a special celebration launching our archives! We are excited to collectively reflect on EDAM’s 43+ year legacy together with you, as we simultaneously look towards EDAM’s future. The event will feature:

• Archival Screenings — View a curated selection of digitized archival footage featuring excerpts from EDAM’s past performances and studio practices from 1976 - 2010; highlighting collaborative work by Peter Bingham / EDAM.

• Facilitated Dialogue *April 17 & 18 ONLY* — Engage in a discussion with guest speakers from EDAM’s history, led by dance writer Kaija Pepper, author of Bingham’s biography The Man Next Door Dances.

• Live Performance — Experience a new directed improvisation performed by the EDAM ensemble, directed by Associate Artistic Director, Olivia Shaffer.

• Celebration — Celebrate with us! Join us for drinks, chats, and reunions at the end of the night.

This event is a ticketed fundraiser to help EDAM sustain itself during a time of rising costs. We ask you to consider supporting EDAM by adding a donation on top of your ticket. Donations of $25+ will receive a charitable tax receipt. Your generous support will go directly towards artist fees for EDAM’s teachers and performers as well as helping to off-set operational costs associated with our regular programming including classes, workshops, jams, and shows. Invest in the future of EDAM, and help us reach our fundraising goal of $5,000!

April 16 — Preview Night

• Performance

• Screening: archival footage from 1976 - 2010

• Celebration

April 17 — Rewind & Renew: 1976 - 1993

• Performance

• Screening: archival footage from 1993 - 2010

• Dialogue with guest speakers

• Celebration

April 18 — Rewind & Renew: 1994 - 2010

• Performance

• Screening: archival footage from 1976 - 1992

• Dialogue with guest speakers

• Celebration

Guest speakers will be announced soon.

Archivist: Abigail Sebaly
Performance Directed by: Olivia Shaffer, in collaboration with performers
Performers: Anne Cooper, Francesca Frewer, Hayley Gawthrop, Alex Mah
Archival Screenings Curated by: Peter Bingham, Sierra Megas, Abigail Sebaly, Olivia Shaffer, Raïna Von Waldenburg
Dialogue Facilitator: Kaija Pepper
Guest Speakers - April 17: coming soon
Guest Speakers - April 18: coming soon
Lighting & Technical Direction: Daniel O'Shea
Film Editing & Event Logistics: Jessica Dawn Keeling
Interim General Manager: Sierra Megas
Associate Artistic Director: Olivia Shaffer
Artistic Director: Peter Bingham

Many Thanks To: Our volunteers, Board of Directors, Western Front, and everyone in our extended community who contributed their time, conversations and memories to help us document the many pieces of EDAM's history in preparation for this project.

EDAM gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the BC Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.

EDAM’s Legacy Archives Project was made possible by funding from Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program.

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.