Mandate: To provide a stable and fertile environment for the development of contemporary dance through teaching, training and the creation and production of choreography and the art of contact improvisation.

EDAM Performing Arts Society is a non-profit, registered charity incorporated in 1982. Since inception, EDAM has been housed inside the Western Front Lodge, an artist-run centre, on East 8th Ave in so-called Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. EDAM (an acronym for Experimental Dance and Music) is both a physical space, and a dance Company whose presence is interwoven through Canadian dance history. EDAM was co-founded by seven independent and influential artists who have gone on to help shape the Canadian performance scene—Peter Bingham, Lola MacLaughlin, Jennifer Mascall, Peter Ryan, Ahmed Hassan, Barbara Bourget, and Jay Hirabayashi. In 1989, Peter Bingham became EDAM's sole Artistic Director and the Company has flourished under his guidance since then.

Bingham is one of the pioneers of Contact Improvisation, a dance form that emphasizes flow and the cooperative exchange of weight between partners. The "touch and tumble" of Contact is a hallmark of much of Peter’s choreography, lending both athleticism and graceful elegance to his partnering and ensemble work.