Upcoming Performances
Aeris Körper’s goal is to inspire the exploration of creativity, movement, expression and interaction in performance to foster self-awareness and connection. We would love to connect with you at our next performance!
Here&Now Festival
a multi-tiered platform for choreographic work
Centred around the choreographer, Here&Now aims to reflect ideas that are relevant and timely. We see the choreographer as responsive and the ones able to reflect the urgent issues of the moment. The platform supports them in different tiers of creation with short length finished works, works-in-progress of any length and opportunity to disseminate their choreographic ideas through workshop facilitation.
2025 Festival - April 25-27 at McMaster’s Lyons Family Studio
Move: Here&Now workshops - the last Saturday of the month September to April
Mainstage Call to Choreographers for 2026 festival - expected summer 2025
Prospects Call to Choreographers for 2026 festival - expected winter 2026
Past Performances
Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh
Here&Now Festival
Here&Now Festival premiered March 20-22nd 2024 at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. A culmination of years of performance series, Here&Now is primarily a presentation platform for finish short length works from choreographers across the country. As one of the only live professional performance platforms, Aeris Körper aspires to showcase diverse stories the reflect the here and now.
In its second year, Here&Now was presented at McMaster University Lyons Family Studio April 25-27th, 2025. It included three short length works in the Mainstage series, six works-in-progress in the Prospects series and a workshop led by Montreal based Camille Huang.
Produced by Aeris Korper.
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS was a presentation series of works-in-progress around a central theme. It brought together local enthusiasts of art and dance with choreographers from the local, regional and international dance community to cultivate creative community dialogue.
Audience members witnessed new and in-progress contemporary dance works whose themes provide the foundation for the evening's dialogue. Each work was followed by a Q&A discussion led by each choreographer, giving the audience an opportunity to ask questions, provide feedback and further examine the ideas presented.
April 14, July 7, October 20 2018, January 26, June 1, October 19 2019, February 22 2020, November 4 2021, March 11, June 3, November 5 2022, at Burlington Student Theatre, Burlington ON.
March 25, June 3 2021, online.
February 23 2023, at The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
October 15 2023, at The Cotton Factory, Hamilton, ON.
Produced by Aeris Korper
Enemy Lines
Enemy Lines is a live dance performance that looks at how a climate of fear led to the incarceration of Japanese Canadians. Held by curiosity, choreographer Mayumi Lashbrook looks back at the actions taken against her family during World War II. Suddenly deemed a threat after the Pearl Harbour attack in 1941, over 22,000 Canadians of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from the coastline of British Columbia - their lives forever altered.
May 12 - 14 2023 , at The Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON and May 26 - 28 2023 at L.R Wilson Hall, Hamilton, ON
choreographed by Mayumi Lashbrook
Produced by Aeris Korper
Fairly Becoming
Fairly Becoming questions materialism and the potential for excessiveness constantly at our fingertips. It explores consequences created by our desires.
Premiered March 29-30 2024 , at The Westbury Theatre, Edmonton AB as part of Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival
choreographed by Mayumi Lashbrook
Produced by Azimuth Theatre