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Upcoming Performances

Aeris K​ör​per’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

 
 

it’s back & better than ever.

April 25 - 27th, 2025
L.R. Wilson Hall, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton

Here&Now offers audiences the chance to experience the work of Canada’s most exciting up-and-coming choreographers in a vibrant and inviting environment. A mixed program of established works, works in development, and an all-level workshop, Here&Now promises a great weekend for new dance audiences and seasoned attendees alike.

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Mainstage Choreographers.

  • Fareh Malik was a co-founder and choreographer for Hamilton's Vie Division, a co-founder and choreographer for Mississauga-based collective GLUM, and is currently a co-founder and director of the Hamilton competitive company RXD.

Photo by Julie Artacho

  • Camille Huang is a performer making physical and visual works. They are a second generation immigrant of the Asian diaspora, making works unfolding between the realms of dance, scenography and experimental performance. As a choreographer, they want to perform feeling, existence, memory and fiction into the archive and emergent present.

     Guided by attention and agency, Camille explores plural making sense of identity, relations and possible futures.

    Their choreographic works have been presented at SummerWorks Festival, OFFTA, Festival Entractes and Tangente.  They have worked on the teams of Dana Gringas (Animals of Distinction), Lucy M. May, and Sarah Rossy. Camille received her training in contemporary dance performance at L’École de Danse Contemporaine de Montreal and now works as a freelance dancer, all the while engaged in making dance related works. She also has a background in anthropology and is based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal.

 

Festival Sponsors.

 
 
 
  • Julia Garlisi is a nationally and internationally acclaimed dance artist, performer, and choreographer based in Hamilton, Ontario. She is a graduate of the Dance Arts Institute Canada (formerly The School of Toronto Dance Theatre Professional Training Program). Julia performed, danced, and toured extensively as a company member of Dancetheatre David Earle for over 15 years. Currently, Julia is an active freelance performer and choreographer. Independently, she has had the pleasure of performing and working with Katie Ewald, Denise Duric, Newton Moraes, Suzette Sherman, Lacey Smith, Imageo Artworks, Toronto Heritage Dance and The Niagara Dance Company. Choreographically, her work has been commissioned for Art of Creation, Guelph Dance Festival, Stratford Spring Works Indie Theatre & Art Festival, Dancetheatre David Earle, The Suzuki String School, Dusk Dances Hamilton, Art Spin Hamilton, Short&Sweet (Guelph) and Internationally (Austria, Germany, Italy) for the SIBA Performance Tour. Julia is the founder and Artistic Director of Dance Contemporary. A platform to educate, create, and express our bodies through classes, workshops, and performances based in Modern and Contemporary dance.

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 will be presented at McMaster University Lyons Family Studio April 25-27th, 2025. It will include 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

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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