Aeris Körper, Hamilton, ON (2026)

02/23/2026

🌟 Before we embark in Movement Through Play this weekend, we wanted to introduce you to the stunning space we’ll be moving together in... this is Dundas Museum & Archives!

🔍 From the beginning, the Dundas Museum & Archives has brought people together. Today, we are your award-winning community museum with a regional reach.
Our collections, exhibits, and events showcase how history and geography have unfolded in our unique Dundas Valley. As a place to gather, learn and discover, we invite visitors of all ages to experience these stories and help keep them alive.
At the Dundas Museum & Archives, you’ll always find fascinating facts and a warm welcome. Our high standards in heritage education and preservation are maintained by our dedicated team of museum and archives professionals and a diverse group of volunteers.

👀 Check it out for yourself this Saturday as we move together in communal joy...
✨ Movement Through Play with Jody Boston
📅 Friday Feb 28
🕛 2–4PM
📍 Dundas Museum & Archives
💸 Pay-what-you-can
👯‍♀️ Ages 16+
🔗 Link in bio to register!

02/16/2026

❤️ Get to know more about this month's fabulous facilitator, the incredibly fun & funny, Jody Boston!

🤹‍♀️ Jody Boston (she/her) is a therapeutic clown practitioner with Red Nose Remedy, working in healthcare settings. An arts educator, she teaches drama in Hamilton schools, privately teaches improv and clown, and appears as a guest artist at McMaster University. As director of Under the Willows, she leads a multidisciplinary team of artists delivering outdoor arts, garden, and play programs for pediatric mental health and developmental support services. Boston has taught Therapeutic Modality courses at Mohawk College and works as a community arts consultant. Recent performances include Femme Arts (Farts) Comedy, Eiler’s Dance Theatre, Open Hearts Theatre, and FiXT POINT.

🌟 Join Jody on February 28th for a Movement Through Play workshop at Dundas Museum & Archives! Reserve your spot today at the link in our bio 🔗

📸 Photo by Ian Pettigrew.

02/11/2026

We’re excited to welcome Jody Boston (she/her) as this month’s Neighbourhood Moves workshop facilitator 🤹‍♀️✨

Movement Through Play is a playful invitation to move, laugh, and connect through games, improvisation, and gentle comedic prompts. Guided by the group’s energy, this session centres on choice, curiousity, and moving at your own pace, no dance experience needed.

Come explore movement through play and celebrate being human together.
✨ Movement Through Play with Jody Boston
📅 Friday Feb 28
🕛 2–4PM
📍 Dundas Museum & Archives
💸 Pay-what-you-can
👯‍♀️ Ages 16+

Neighbourhood Moves is made possible through the generous support of the Incite Foundation for the Arts.

📸 Photo by Ian Pettigrew.

02/03/2026

✨NEW BLOG POST IS UP!

Artistic Associate, Skye Rogers, details her creative process over her first year in the program, as she worked on her debut dance film. 🎥

“As I write to you today, at the top of my second year with the company, I’m still in the creative mush of it all.

I’m not here to tell you a story of my perfectly smooth, linear process of building this body of work. And frankly, I’m glad that’s not the story I’m telling.

I’m here, if you’ll have me, to let you in on the creative growth and decay of my imperfect process. One that has cycled through break-downs and break-throughs a number of times;
A process of creative compost.

This is the story of a multi-year long project that is still feeding itself on recycled and reclaimed ideas.
One that I still believe in, despite the mess.
One that I hope you can see one day.

This is the story of Peggy.”

Check out the full article on our website! 🔗 in our bio 💌

📸 Collage created by Skye Rogers, using notebook images and stills taken from peers at our Creation & Conversations solo dance lab

01/26/2026

Before our workshop this weekend, we wanted to introduce you to the stunning space we’ll be moving together in... this is Magnolia Hall!

Magnolia Hall, built in 1877 in the Gothic Revival style, is a beautiful adaptive re-use of a former church with colourful stained glass windows, stunning woodwork and beautiful gardens. It is now ran as a rental venue by the City of Hamilton, and we feel so lucky to get to host movement in it with the community!
Experience the space for yourself at our next workshop...
👣 Introduction to Kathak with Priyanka Topé
Saturday January 31st
2-4PM
Magnolia Hall,115 Hunter St. W
Pay-what-you-can
Ages 16+

Link in our bio to pre-register!

01/22/2026

📣 Now Open: Prospects — Expressions of Interest ,📣

We’re so excited to share that Prospects, a signature Aeris Körper event within the Here&Now Festival, is now open for Expressions of Interest!

Prospects invites choreographers to share a work-in-progress, and engage in a facilitated dialogue with the audience—posing three guiding questions and receiving reflections that support clarity, curiousity, and the next phase of creation.

What to know:
✨ $500 CAD honorarium + applicable taxes
✨ Open to choreographers who self-identify as Hamilton-based (in all the ways that relationship may show up)
✨ New works or existing works with a specific new question or element
✨ 4–25 minutes in length
✨ All dance & movement-based artists are encouraged to apply

Timeline:
🗓 EOI Deadline: February 20 at 11:59pm
💌 Notifications by April 11
🔗 Apply via the link in bio
📩 Accessibility needs or questions: mayumi@aeriskorper.com

We can’t wait to witness the pieces you're creating, the questions you’re holding, and the conversations they open ❣️

DanceProcess WorkInProgress ChoreographicInquiry CommunityCare DanceDialogue

Photographer: Drew Berry
Choreographer/Performer: Jenna Harris

01/19/2026

🤗 Hey community! Meet Priyanka, this month’s Neighbourhood Moves facilitator. She might already look familiar... as AK Board Member, and past participant in the hArt Dance Film Series AND Prospects: Here&Now 2025, we are super pumped to bring her teachings to our workshop series!

👣 Priyanka is an emerging Kathak artist, choreographer, vocalist, and dance educator originally from New York, now based in Hamilton, Canada. She began studying Kathak at a young age under Pandita Guru Archana Joglekar and has continued her training for over a decade with her teacher and mentor Parul Shah. Priyanka has also trained in Bharatanatyam under Smt. Guru Satya Pradeep.
When Priyanka moved to Hamilton in 2022, the city lacked a Kathak community. Since then, she has made it her mission to foster a growing community through teaching at her home and McMaster University. Priyanka’s aim is to raise awareness of Kathak and strengthen Hamilton’s diverse arts scene.

💌 Join Priyanka on January 31st for Introduction to Kathak at Magnolia Hall, and participate in embodied learning of the North Indian classical dance form known for its rhythmic footwork, expressive storytelling, and dynamic play between structure and improvisation.

Reserve your spot today at the link in our bio ❤️

📸 Photo by Erick Torres

01/15/2026

✨ Before our workshop this weekend, we wanted to introduce you to the stunning space we’ll be moving together in... this is Magnolia Hall!

Magnolia Hall, built in 1877 in the Gothic Revival style, is a beautiful adaptive re-use of a former church with colourful stained glass windows, stunning woodwork and beautiful gardens. It is now ran as a rental venue by the City of Hamilton, and we feel so lucky to get to host movement in it with the community!

Experience the space for yourself this Saturday...
👣 Introduction to Kathak with Priyanka Topé
📆 Saturday January 31st
⏰ 2-4PM
📍 Magnolia Hall,115 Hunter St. W
💸 Pay-what-you-can
👯 Ages 16+

🖇️ Link in our bio to pre-register!

01/14/2026

💫 We’re thrilled to welcome Priyanka, Aeris Körper board member and Kathak artist and educator, as this month’s Neighbourhood Moves Workshop facilitator. Priyanka will guide us through an introduction to Kathak, a North Indian classical dance form blending footwork, gestures and storytelling. Come explore rhythm and celebrate diverse movement traditions with us!

As always, no experience needed, just a willingness to move with community!

✨ Introduction to Kathak with Priyanka Topé
📅 Saturday January 31st
🕛 2-4PM
📍 Magnolia Hall,115 Hunter St. W
💸 Pay-what-you-can
👯‍♀️ Ages 16+

Neighbourhood Moves is made possible through the generous support of the Incite Foundation for the Arts.

🔗 Link in our bio to pre-register!

AerisKörper

01/09/2026

Witness some of the magic from last week’s Neighbourhood Moves workshop with Heryka Miranda 🍃✨

🌬️Heryka guided us through her practice in Honouring the Land Through Movement Inspirations - a gentle journey of movement, connection, friendship, respect and peace. Special thanks to the Cotton Factory for hosting us!

Missed us this time? Neighbourhood Moves is a monthly series, and we may just be popping up in your neighbourhood next! 🗺️

Check out our website, linked in our bio, for the full series schedule, or stayed tuned on instagram for details of our next offering, coming soon!!🪩

🕺Facilitator: Heryka Miranda
🎥 Video shot and edited by Clairandean Humphrey
💫 Space: The Cotton Factory

12/22/2025

🌟The Holidays are just around the corner… and so is our final Neighbourhood Moves workshop of the year!! We thought we’d introduce ya to this month’s venue... the iconic Cotton Factory 🌟

The Cotton Factory is a Creative Industries complex in East Hamilton. In the heart of lower Hamilton, this former cotton mill built in 1900 is a prime example of adaptive reuse. The former site of the Imperial Cotton Co. has been transformed into a creative industries complex, with space for workshops, studios for artists and office space for creative professionals. Film and TV productions, photographers and special events are also drawn to the building by its unique aesthetic and its historic charm.

We hope you can enjoy this unique space with us as we move & groove through that odd time between Christmas and New Years 🌀

🍃 Honouring the Land Through Movement Inspirations with Heryka Miranda
📅 Saturday, December 27, 2025
📍 The Cotton Factory — 270 Sherman Ave N. Hamilton
🕛 2–4PM
💸 Pay-what-you-can
👯‍♀️ Ages 16+

🔗 Link in our bio to pre-register!

12/18/2025

AK's 2025 WRAPPED 💫

THANK YOU to everyone who made 2025 an INCREDIBLE year for us here at Aeris Körper. Whether you attended our festival, moved with us at a workshop, or contributed to our work through a donation, you played a huge part in supporting empowered expression here in Hamilton ❤️.

The year isn't quite over yet! And we wanted to let you know that there is still time to contribute financially to our work, and receive back one of the amazing perks we've got lined up...

💌 Donations made through our Canada Helps page before December 31st are eligible for the following...

💫$50+ will be named as a Community Supporter on our website.

⭐️$100+ will also receive free access to our online movement workshop Dancing is for Everyone and a personalized notebook.

🌟$500+ will also be named the Artistic Associate Sponsor, announced at every 2026 public event.

🔗 Click the link in our bio to contribute today!

📸 Many of these photos were captured at our AK team shoot back in May by the incredible

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