Aeris Körper, Hamilton, ON (2025)

09/24/2025

same offering, new title... any guesses what we've been cooking up?
stay tuned for our official series launch on Instagram this Friday ❤️🌟

09/22/2025

👀 ... something exciting is just around the corner... can you guess what it is?

(if you're subscribed to our newsletter, you already know! 🤭 )

09/17/2025

📣 Calling emerging dance creators in the Greater Hamilton Area! 📣

The 3rd annual hArt Dance Film Series is here — presented by Aeris Körper with & , and supported by + the Incite Foundation for the Arts.

We’re commissioning one new short dance film (9–12 mins) by an early-career artist who identifies as Black, Indigenous, racialized, or from other marginalized communities. The selected film will premiere Nov 23 at The Westdale alongside international works, followed by an artist talkback! 🎬✨

🚨 Applications close in just 11 days — Sept 28 @ 11:59PM 🚨
🎥 Film due: Nov 20
🎞️ Premiere + Artist Talkback: Nov 23 @ 7PM
📍Location: The Westdale
✨ Must live/work in the Greater Hamilton Area (including Six Nations)

💌 Apply via 💨 Link in bio ✨
❓Questions: [email protected]

📸: Marlowe Porter

09/02/2025

💞 💖 💗 More love for the Lab!!

"The Solo Lab helped me clarify what I want to work on. I loved working in a small group and witnessing others’ processes and the dialogues. I am so inspired to continue. This was a definite breakthrough experience.”
— Ireni Stamou

💌 We're brining Creation & Conversations to Hamilton, and YOU'RE INVITED!
Get in the Lab with Denise Fujiwara , and have your own breakthrough experience, as you develop a solo work, among a cohort of 5 choreographers.

✨ All the details can be found at the link in our bio, as well as the Expression of Interest form! Applications will be accepted until September 25th.

📸 Photo by Katrina Medalle .kace of a work-in-progress showing of Fairly Becoming by Mayumi Lashbrook .movement, a solo choreographed in Solo Dance Lab.

08/26/2025

💗 Check out this lovely testimony from the one and only Sylvie Bouchard , who has participated in Denise Fujiwara's Solo Dance Lab!

“This lab brought in a curiosity and a freedom I never expected. I experienced a state of ‘no judgement’, which was incredibly liberating. It has changed me as an artist and has deeply inspired me. ”

✨ Have you heard that we're bringing the Lab to Hamilton? Join Denise Fujiwara for Creation & Conversations this fall!!! Details can be found on our page, or at aeriskorper.com/workshops! We're accepting Expressions of Interest until September 25th!

📸 Photo by Katrina Medalle .kace of a work-in-progress showing of Fairly Becoming by Mayumi Lashbrook .movement, a solo choreographed in Solo Dance Lab.

08/18/2025

💫 We are so very THRILLED to be bringing the prolific Denise Fujiwara to Hamilton for our new Lab, Creation & Conversations, inspired by Denise's own Solo Dance Lab!

👀 Read on to learn more about Denise & her amazing career!
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Denise Fujiwara’s work as a dance artist has developed over 45 years of intensive practice, performance and study. Her most influential mentors include master dance pedagogue and dramaturg Elizabeth Langley, and the late Japanese Butoh masters Natsu Nakajima and Yukio Waguri. She has developed a practice of Butoh that artfully assists participants to experience deeply embodied movement through the cultivation of curiosity, the imagination, awareness and presence. Her solo repertoire has travelled to 4 continents.
She has led workshops and master classes across Canada and the U.S.A., in Denmark, Poland, Germany, the U.K., Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and India. She is a recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Muriel Sherrin Award for international achievement in dance and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing and distinguished career achievement. www.fujiwaradance.com

🌷 Want to blossom in your artistry with Denise's guidance? Check out our page or website for all the juicy details! Expressions of Interest for the Lab are open until September 25th, just head to the link in our bio!

📸 Photo of Denise Fujiwara by Denise Grant

08/13/2025

📣CALLING ALL CHOREOGRAPHERS!!
Aeris Körper brings the inaugural Solo Dance Lab to Hamilton!

🌟 The Lab was created by the prolific choreographer and performer, Denise Fujiwara , to support choreographers in the most challenging of choreographic forms; the solo. Creation & Conversation follows the 5 week Lab structure, plus a culminating social for Hamilton choreographers and dance artists to deepen community connections.

👣 This process is a path to finding, developing and deepening one’s own voice as a dance artist. Develop your work with prompts and feedback from Denise, advancing your creativity and choreography while in community with peers. Through this Lab, which includes talks, homework assignments, informal showings and feedback, we give space to ask questions, experiment, and allow for trial and error, all in service of growing our knowledge, skills and ability to create solos.

📆 Dates | 5 SUNDAYS, Oct 26-Nov 30
⏰ Time | 1-5pm
📍 Place | ANDTHENYOU, Upstairs Studio
💌 Investment | $300*

*Further subsidies are available; please inquire at [email protected]. The cost of Solo Dance Lab in Toronto is $400.

‼️ We are NOW ACCEPTING Expressions of Interest. Head to the link in our bio to learn more & apply today!

📸 Photo by Katrina Medalle .kace of a work-in-progress showing of Fairly Becoming by Mayumi Lashbrook .movement, a solo choreographed in Solo Dance Lab.

05/21/2025

🌟Meet your Facilitators for The Art of Improvisation: Aeris Körper’s Annual Dance Intensive🌟

✨AK’s Artistic Director Mayumi Lashbrook✨
✨AK’s Artistic Associate LOR✨
✨AK’s Artistic Associate Skye Rogers✨

What a line-up, folks! The Art of Improvisation is a two-day intensive series led by Artistic Director Mayumi Lashbrook with contributions from Artistic Associates LOR and Skye Rogers. We’ll be diving into exercises that ground us, ignite our improvisational creativity, break habitual patterning, and build our awareness, deepening our ability to make articulate and specific choices in movement.

🌼When: 10 am-2 pm June 3 & 4, 2025
📍Where: Defining Movement Dance, 624 Upper James St., Hamilton

🎟Accessible Pricing!
$20, $40 or $60/ day rate. We endeavour to offer sliding scale pricing. If the tiered pricing does not fit your needs, please email [email protected] and name the amount that works for you.

LINK IN OUR BIO TO REGISTER!💐

05/17/2025

🌟Join Aeris Körper for our annual summer intensive workshop! We’ll explore exercises that ground us, ignite our improvisational creativity, break habitual patterning, and deepen our ability to make articulate and specific movement choices.🌟

We will seek to understand how to cultivate presence and awareness - a mindfulness that supports performance and our everyday lives.

🌼When: 10 am-2 pm June 3 & 4, 2025
📍Where: Defining Movement Dance, 624 Upper James St., Hamilton

This intensive is open to all abilities; no dance experience is necessary! This workshop is excellent for adults interested in mindfulness and improvisation.

🎟Accessible Pricing!
$20, $40 or $60/ day rate. We endeavour to offer sliding scale pricing. If the tiered pricing does not fit your needs, please email [email protected] and name the amount that works for you.

Link in our bio to register, we can’t wait to move with you!🌟🌟🌟

📸Photos in slides 1 & 3 by Jess Bullock
📸Photos in slides 2 & 4 by Joel Galenkamp

05/12/2025

We’re so excited for ’s upcoming show at 👀 check it out…

Dreamwalker Dance Company presents Toronto’s premiere of Firehorse and Shadow, a co-production with Citadel + Compagnie. Combining elements of contemporary dance,
shadow puppetry, animation, video and theatre, Firehorse and Shadow explores cosmology, family histories, relationships, Chinese medicine, wellness, food, and fate. The work illuminates embodied and untold stories, centering on the lived experiences of Chinese Canadian women, while also delving into broader narratives of identity and heritage. Firehorse and Shadow is co-created by choreographer/performer/writer
Andrea Nann, shadow artist/performer Annie Katsura Rollins, director/dance-storyteller Sarah Chase, and dramaturge/visual artist Cindy Mochizuki with music by Ben Grossman, animation by Elysha Poirier, and lighting by Echo Zhou (after Jennifer
Lennon).

Dates & Times: June 5-8, 2025
June 5, 6, 7 at 8pm
June 7 at 4:30pm
June 8 at 2pm

Location: The Citadel, 304 Parliament St, Toronto, ON M5A 3A4

Tickets: $35 Regular, $25 Artist/Senior/Student

Ticket link: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/firehorse-and-shadow

Accessibility: The Citadel has an accessible washroom located in the lobby at street level. The Theatre is accessible by a two person elevator located at the lobby level. Community members using mobility devices can use the elevator to access these spaces with a staff member’s assistance to operate. The Citadel is located near accessible transit stops at Parliament Street at Dundas Street East.

04/26/2025

🌟 OPENING NIGHT last night was a success!

HUGE congrats to the choreographers & their dancers for an incredible night of poignant dance in Hamilton!! 💫

and big shoutout to our creative team & crew who helped to make it all happen!! ❤️

we have one more night of mainstage TONIGHT, as well as prospects today & tomorrow afternoon, and a workshop with choreographer Camille Huang on Sunday morning! 🪩

get your tickets online, don’t miss this incredible offering of dance in Hamilton!! 💖💖

📸 featuring photos by Drew Berry .photography
from Feast of Fishbones by ,
DROWN by ,
and Now and at the Hour by

04/24/2025

Here&Now starts TOMORROW!!! 😁🤩

Planning on joining us?? Read on for helpful tips to get to our venue, the Lyons Family Studio theatre 🥰

🌟 The Lyons Family Studio is located on the first floor of L.R. Wilson Hall on the McMaster Campus.

🚗 If you're driving:
⭐️ Enter campus from Sterling Street, which you can access from King St. W
⭐️ L.R. Wilson Hall is directly to your left at the intersection of Sterling and Stearn St.
⭐️ For parking, enter campus through the Sterling Street entrance and turn right at the first opportunity
⭐️ Keeping in the left lane, follow this road into Parking Lot B.
⭐️ Proceed on foot along the pathway back towards L.R. Wilson Hall.
🌟 The Lyons Family Studio is located by the south entrance (sliding doors) of the Waller Lobby, L.R. Wilson Hall.

🚌 If you're transitting:
⭐️ When travelling from downtown, routes 05 / 51 / 01 west will take you to McMaster's campus
⭐️ Hop off the bus at Sterling & Forsyth
⭐️ Continue to walk west down Sterling for about 2 minutes, L.R. Wilson Hall is on your left!
🌟 The Lyons Family Studio is located by the south entrance (sliding doors) of the Waller Lobby, L.R. Wilson Hall.

💌 Please note that if you're registered for our move: Here&Now workshop, it will be taking place in a different venue on campus, Togo Salmon Hall Room 118. Check your email for details!

Stay tuned to our insta stories this weekend for a walk-through! We're so excited to see you 😍

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