Aisha Sasha John

Artist

Aisha Sasha John is a performer, choreographer and poet. She’s interested in performance as a site of rehearsing being and in the power of reception as creative methodology. John was the 2023-2025 Affiliate Artist at Toronto Dance Theatre with whom she created her most recent choreographic work, The Pool (March 2025). Other choreographic works include the duet DIANA ROSS DREAM with Devon Snell (Danse-Cité 2022), the aisha of is which premiered at The Whitney Museum in 2017, and The Minimum, a work-in-progress in which John is researching the movement language of her singing. John was 2019-2022 resident artist at Dancemakers.

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). John’s video work and text art have been exhibited at Doris McCarthy Gallery and Oakville Galleries.