Total: With Aisha Sasha John
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM
Airing Date: April 19, 2025
Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton
Featured Guest(s): Aisha Sasha John
On this episode, Aisha Sasha John (Performer, choreographer, and poet) opens up about her mantra, the new poetry collection entitled Total, and her recent work The Pool presented by Toronto Dance Theatre featuring the TDT company ensemble.
About Aisha Sasha John:
Aisha Sasha John is a performer, choreographer, poet and the 2023-2025 Toronto Dance Theatre Affiliate Artist. Aisha is interested in performance as a site of rehearsing being and in the power of reception as creative methodology.
Aisha’s most recent choreographic work, The Pool, was made with the TDT ensemble and premièred in March 2025. Other choreographic works include the duet DIANA ROSS DREAM with Devon Snell, the aisha of is which premiered at The Whitney Museum in 2017, and The Minimum, a work-in-progress.
She is the author of total (McClelland & Stewart 2025), I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart 2017), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, THOU (Book*hug, 2014), a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award, and the chapbook TO STAND AT A PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED (Ugly Duckling Presse 2021).
📸 Image of Aisha Sasha John – Photo by Francesca Chudnoff
