Photo & Video
In-Studio Photoshoot rates begin at $250 for 1hr + 100 edited selects by me.
Filming day rates begin at $500 and evolve depending on needs of the client & project.
Editing rates begin at $65/hr and evolve depending on needs of the client & project.
Custom Film + Editing Packages can be quoted after discussing project details. For a quote, reach out to aishiasampson@gmail.com with specific requests & projects details.
“Aishia is my go-to photographer when it comes to capturing my company of professional dancers. Her own background as a dancer gives her an incredible eye for movement, beautiful lines, flattering angles, and the artistry of the human body. There is such a natural ease and flow to the way she works behind the camera. She instinctively understands dancers, anticipates movement, and knows exactly when to capture that perfect moment. I always feel confident putting my company in front of her lens because I know she will capture them at their absolute best. She just gets it!”
Purdie Baumann
Founder & Artistic Director, Purdie Entertainment | The Sarafinas
Teaching
Rates begin at $200 for 1.5hr and evolve depending on class size, age range and desired style.
#1 — DANCE ON CAMERA
One-offs or “music video” workshops catered to the needs of the client/group. Setting, staging & performing within a custom creative container, using playback as a visual learning tool to gain understanding of how the camera as a machine can be wielded in front of the lens to a performer’s advantage.
#2 — CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE
Warming up our physicality & imagination before learning choreography to workshop embodied catharsis. Play, musicality & specificity are utilized to support artists in their performance of choreography that goes beyond hitting the “right” steps to feel spontaneous & alive.
#3 — WRITING
Conversations & essay exercises connecting dance language to language arts. Why is it important, as dance artists, to use our words?
#4 — STRIKING CHORDS WORKSHOP
AN INVESTIGATION OF TENSION & VIBRATION IN PERFORMANCE
with Aishia Lin & Matthew Dean Marsh
How does vibration and resonance take form through physical and sonic manifestations in performance? How might our awareness of tension in and around us inform our behaviour and decisions when performing? What elements classify performance and how might our daily habits intersect with those associated with performing?
This workshop prioritizes spontaneity, play, and engagement to deepen one’s relationship to their own instrument and process for the sake of resonant impact. Through a series of physical, theatrical, and musical exercises, we will identify how tension shows up in the body when performing or in our every day, and understand the difference between tension in service of artful messaging or a hindrance of flow. Inviting curiosity surrounding one’s limitations or tensions, this workshop aims to make sense of contradicting impulses and recalibrate toward effective emotional resonance.
Participants will be immersed in a collaborative process involving singing, movement, and improvisation alongside conversations and reflections about metaphysical resistance to better understand and embody evocative messaging.
This workshop is suitable for participants 16 years and older.