A Day of the UNDERSCORE with Anne Cooper

March 28, 2026
Sliding scale: $100-$160 
Sat: 9:30am - 4:30pm (1:15 hour lunch)
1101 N State Street - Aikido Peace Education Center aka „the dojo“

This day can be booked in combination with Deepening - Contact Improvisation Series with Carmen and Rajendra Serber on March 29: https://www.carmenserber.com/deepening-contact-improvisation-series/

Registration

The Underscore was developed by Nancy Stark Smith in the 90's. It is a spacious experience shared by the participants which can spark surprising kinesthetic and compositional improvisation and Contact Improvisation within this defined framework.

more info on the structure of the day coming soon

Anne Cooper has danced with EDAM since 1994, studying Contact Improvisation with Peter Bingham and performing in EDAM's work both structured improvisations and choreography. She has researched and performed with Nancy Stark Smith through Nancy's 'Glimpse performance installations' + Community Underscores (research, performance installations, participation & facilitation of the Underscore) in the USA. Anne has taught/facilitated contact improvisation (CI) at EDAM (Vancouver, BC ) by invitation of Peter Bingham in 2001 and in other locales through classes, Jams and workshops.  She has created and performed her own work and has danced with many Canadian companies/choreographers. Anne has trained in contemporary dance and contact improvisation; her CI teachers include Peter Bingham, Jaci Metivier, Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew Harwood, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung and others and some study with Steve Paxton (Material For the Spine) and recently, Nora Hajos (Material For the Spine) and Daniel Lepkoff. Anne is grateful to live and work on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations 
(' Vancouver, BC' ).