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Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John is interested in choreographing performances that are the occasion for real and multitudinous actions of love. She is the 2019-2022 Dancemakers’ Resident Artist. In 2021, she commences research on the all-Black ensemble work DIANA ROSS DREAM. Her first full-length solo debuted as the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum in 2017. In 2018, iterations of the aisha of is were presented at MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels) and Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival. From 2015 to 2017, Aisha choreographed, performed and curated as a member of the collective WIVES, presenting Feeled (OFFTA, 2016) and Action Movie (La Chapelle, 2017). Aisha is author of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated collection, I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017), as well as THOU (Book*hug 2014), and the chapbook TO STAND AT THE PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED (UDP 2021).