The healing power of Play: With Mayumi Lashbrook

About Mayumi Lashbrook:

Mayumi Lashbrook (she/her) is a Japanese Canadian settler who seeks to expose, challenge, and rectify systems of oppression by creating innovative, introspective and inclusive dance theatre. Her primary practices span performance, choreography, curation, creative production and education. Mayumi is the Artistic Director of Aeris Körper, practitioner of Dreamwalker Dance’s Conscious Bodies methodology and Creative Producer of dance made in canada’s The ‘D’ Word Podcast. She is a student of Butoh, learning under the mentorship of Denise Fujiwara and as a company member of Fujiwara Dance Inventions. She has choreographed for Dusk Dances, Guelph Dance, CanAsian Dance and self produced a bi-city presentation of her work Enemy Lines.