Call for EDAM Scholarship Training Program Applications
Winter 2025

Deadline| December 11th, 2024

  • Training Period: January 6th to March 30th, 2025 (12 weeks)

EDAM’s Scholarship Training Program supplements primary training and offers participants an opportunity to intensify their Contact Improvisation practice and professional training skill-set. EDAM is offering 6 Training Scholarships to dancers and/or movement practitioners for the Winter 2025 Term.

Program Details:

To participate in EDAM’s Scholarship Training Program, Scholarship participants must attend a minimum three Morning Classes per week, held Monday to Friday, from 10AM to 12PM. Morning Classes will be led by Artistic Director, Peter Bingham; Associate Artistic Director, Olivia Shaffer; and EDAM teachers. Scholarship participants are also highly encouraged to attend a Fundamentals Workshop at the beginning of the Term. Dates for the January 2025 Fundamentals Workshop will be confirmed and announced by early December 2024. The Scholarship Training Program allows participants to attend all drop-in classes and the Fundamentals Workshop free of charge; as well as workshops and special offerings at a reduced rate (50%).

EDAM and Foolish Operations will be hosting Big Thinking: Contact Improvisation and Ensemble Thinking a special week of training with members of the Lower Left Collective (Nina Martin [Marfa, TX], Margaret Sunghe Paek [Lawrence U., WI], Karen Høybakk Mikalsen [Olso, Norway], Julie Lebel [Vancouver, BC]) during the week of January 20th to 25th, 2025. During this week, participants are highly encouraged to attend Morning Class however attendance will not be mandatory. This special training falls outside of EDAM’s regular activities, and Scholarship recipients will be entitled to take Morning and Afternoon classes at the reduced Scholarship rate (50%). More details about Big Thinking will be announced in late-November on EDAM’s website and social media.

In addition to participating in classes, Scholarship recipients are expected to actively engage in EDAM's daily class responsibilities and culture, including assisting with the setup of the studio space and contributing thoughts, questions and curiosities to class discussions. Optional opportunities will be available to shadow and assist with various EDAM activities, such as shows, workshops and jams.

Selected participants will be expected to respect and embrace EDAM’s Safety, Consent, and Inclusion Policy.

Eligibility:

  • Dancers and/or movement practitioners who have recently completed a basic training program in dance, theatre, or clown with an established organization within the last five years OR

  • Those who have not completed basic training with an established organization OR those who have finished their basic training with an established organization more than five years ago are welcome to apply, please articulate why intensive training in Contact Improvisation is of current interest to you and how it connects to your artistic practice.

  • Priority will be given to applicants who have taken at least three classes (at any level) at EDAM.

  • Priority will be given to artists who are based in Vancouver during the Scholarship period. 

How to Apply:

Please send the following application materials to: info@edamdance.org and CC: director@edamdance.org by no later than December 11, 2024 at 11:59PM.

  • Letter of Interest (maximum 1 page)

  • Resume or CV (maximum 2 pages)

  • Recent head-shot

  • Please include the date of completion of your most recent basic training and the organization you trained with, or equivalent. Please share with us your current interests in Contact Improvisation, why you wish to train with EDAM, and how the Scholarship will impact your artistic practice and/or professional goals.

Please email us at info@edamdance.org if you have any questions.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 11th, 2024
Applicants will be notified of results by December 23rd, 2024.

Bingham P., Pile On II, 2022
Performers, Olivia Shaffer and Arash Khakpour, Anne Cooper and Olivia Shaffer,