PuSh Festival

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival brings groundbreaking work in theatre, dance, multimedia & music to Vancouver and beyond.

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🎉That’s a wrap on the 2024 PuSh Festival!

Thank you for joining us. If you saw a show, watch your email for the chance to complete a PuSh Festival survey and win a trip for two to Victoria!

🗓️ We’ll be back next year: Jan 23–Feb 9, 2025!

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🎧 On PuSh Play: Diana Lopez Soto on what aerial dance contributes to the dramaturgy of NOMADA, the artists’ involvement with sustainability, and how art is in conversation with ecology.

Listen here: https://t.co/xxEmg9E2bF

📷: Greg Wong

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🎧 Back in January, Gabrielle Martin & Bruce Gladwin of @Back2BackTheatr discussed the complexities of speaking and being heard & societal change with regards to our assumptions about others.

Listen here: https://t.co/9CO3dQkRQm

📷: Jeff Busby

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🎧 Cherish Menzo on the “chopped and screwed” remix technique, the effect of time on the meaning of images, and the Black body in the context of post-humanism.

Listen here: https://t.co/Sc9gliGdmK

📷: Yaqine Hamazaoui & Yema Gieskes

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🎧 On this ep of PuSh Play, Naishi Wang & @jeanabreudance discuss how Deciphers tackles loneliness, the migrant experience and the transforming nature of human identity.

Listen here: https://t.co/6UIF6M7AEl

📷: Maya Yoncali

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🎧 ICYMI: on PuSh Play, @GuyRgisJr2 and Gabrielle Martin discuss L'amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie (Love Like a Buried Cathedral).

Listen here: https://t.co/KFyVQrFH7x

📷: Christophe Péan

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Remembering our volunteer appreciation party back in February ☺️

📷: Sun Woo Baik

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🎧 On this PuSh Play episode: David Pay, AD of @musiconmain talks to @adamtendler about the story of Adam's strange inheritance, grief and mourning through numbness, and how Inheritances changed as the work evolved.

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Some spellbinding shots from @Conspiracy_Now’s Same Difference.

📷: Sarah Race Photography

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🎧 Gabrielle Martin with Vanessa Goodman @actiondistance & Simona Deaconescu #tangajcollective on #BLOT, the body as microbiological being, how bacteria might shape our preferences—and more. Listen here: https://t.co/novRFXUZ4N

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The salt dunes from BLOT - Body Line of Thought (@ActionDistance & Tangaj Collective).

📷: Tricia Knowles

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In the spotlight.

Sound of the Beast
@BelladonnaNHP/@beyondwallsTPM

📷: Sun Woo Baik

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🎧 On PuSh Play: @SukeshRakesh talks about the philosophy of creating and moving through chaos, the particular challenge of solo work, and whether practice can be a source of healing. Listen here: https://t.co/sDVmFxQZTp

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A throwback to @NeworldTheatre's workshop with @Back2BackTheatr (The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes), where creators etc etc etc TKTKTK.

📷: Name here

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At Ramanenjana co-choreographer Simona Deaconescu’s artist talk, she discussed the phenomenon of Ramenenjana, contextualizing its appearance in 1863 and 1869.

📷: Julian Legere

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🎧 Project lead David Mesiha and dramaturg Gavan Cheema, co-artistic directors of @theatre.conspiracy discuss their show Same Difference on this episode of PuSh Play! Listen here: https://t.co/sDVmFxQZTp

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Moments from the Industry Series Talk “Creating, Knowing and Sharing” with Noël Habel, Program Officer at @CanadaCouncil!

Presented with @talkingstickfst & @CanadaCouncil.

📷: Sarah Race Photography

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Some sky-high snapshots from @TUCircus’s Aerial Performance Workshop with Inbal Ben Haim!

📷: Sarah Race Photography

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Today, we’re reminiscing about our opening party back in January… 🪩🥲

Save the date for next year’s Festival—Jan 23–Feb 9, 2025!

📷: Tricia Knowles

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🎧 ICYMI: Basel Zaraa on Dear Laila, an interactive installation that uses objects to connect with audiences; how we use art to deal with trauma; and how we can show big events as experienced by normal people. Listen here: https://t.co/kHAxgfoPyC #LivePuSh #Podcast

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From the Sound of the Beast talkback:

"Before the show, I write names on my arm, I wash it off every night so that I have to do it again every show, and I am committed to speaking because of these names."

— @BelladonnaNHP

📷: Tricia Knowles

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