Andrea Mapili

Bio

Andrea Mapili is a Filipinx-Canadian choreographer, movement director and playwright based in Toronto. In 2017, she reinterpreted the choreography of Cassettes 100, a one hundred–person interarts piece at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. In 2021, she took part in the digital presentation of Supermodel, an interarts piece responding to and interrogating the Asian-Canadian model minority myth. In addition to co-writing the play, Through the Bamboo, published in 2021 (Playwrights Canada Press), she was also the Movement Director and Assistant Director. Andrea is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator specializing in embodied communication and somatic awareness for health and wellness.