Anne Cooper has danced with EDAM since 1994. She has performed in the work of many choreographers in Vancouver, BC and with companies in Manitoba and Quebec. She has performed improvisations directed by several well-known dance makers in the field of improvisation; with the EDAM Ensemble, and with (the late, great, and beloved) Nancy Stark Smith, a co-founder of Contact Improvisation, in NSS’s “Glimpse Performance Installations” (USA). She began teaching Contact Improvisation (Sundays) at EDAM by invitation of Peter Bingham in 2000 and has taught contact improvisation (CI) and/or dance improvisation there and elsewhere ever since. She also facilitates Nancy Stark Smith’s “Underscore.” Anne creates her own performance work, often a hybrid of movement, vocalization, and words, which has been presented throughout Vancouver.