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Open Studio presentation of The Minimum with Aisha Sasha John

Thursday March 20
Friday March 21
From 3:30-4:30 PM ET in Studio B
at the Winchester Street Theatre
Free Community Gathering Winchester Street Theatre , 80 Winchester Street, Toronto (VIEW MAP)

Accessibility Info: Unfortunately the Winchester Street Theatre where TDT is based is not currently wheelchair accessible. There are three steps outside of the front entrance, a small platform, and then three more steps to the lobby (a straight hallway that then leads you to the theatre). To access the private gender-neutral restrooms, there are five additional steps at the end of the lobby. The seats in the theatre are on risers with stairs; please contact info@tdt.org if it is more comfortable to have a seat near the front to reduce the number of steps.

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Join Affiliate Artist Aisha Sasha John as she culminates her residency with a showing of her solo work-in-progress The Minimum.

Aisha has been working on The Minimum throughout her TDT residency, since fall 2023. Her research for The Minimum concerns two things: one, combining singing and movement as a holistic, integrated practice; and two, “What is the least I can give?” as a strategy for reception.

TDT's Affiliate Artist (2023-25)

Photo by Luther Konadu

Aisha Sasha John

Aisha Sasha John is interested in the power of reception as creative methodology and in choreographing performances that occasion real love. John is the 2023-2025 Toronto Dance Theatre Affiliate Artist.

Her duet with Devon Snell, DIANA ROSS DREAM, was developed during a 2019-2022 Dancemakers choreographic residency and premiered at La Chapelle (Danse-cité, Montreal) in September 2022. In 2024, the work’s tour dates included Rouyn-Noranda for the L’Ecart Biennial of Performing Arts as well as Vancouver in collaboration with Plastic Orchid Factory.

From 2015-2017, John choreographed, performed and curated as a member of the collective WIVES, presenting ACTION MOVIE at La Chapelle (2017). Her first full-length solo work debuted as the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum in 2017, and in 2018, iterations of the aisha of is were presented at MAI and Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival. WE ARE HANGING OUT RIGHT NOW, a collaboration with Julia Thomas, was presented at Videofag and Buddies in 2016. John’s video work and text art have been exhibited in galleries (Doris McCarthy, Oakville Galleries). A celebrated poet, John is the author of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize nominated collection, I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017), THOU (Book*hug 2014), and TO STAND AT A PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED (UDP 2021). Her fourth collection, total, will be published by McClelland & Stewart on March 25, 2025. Now available for pre-order here.

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