Six world premieres hit Vancouver stages at PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, January 22 to February 8
Multidisciplinary offerings include Jerahuni Movement Factory’s Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) and Plastic Orchid Factory’s Catching Up to the Future of Our Past
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Catching Up to the Future of Our Past. Photo by David Cooper
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is returning to Vancouver from January 22 to February 8, with innovative contemporary works by local, national, and international artists.
PuSh has been the city’s midwinter anchor for more than two decades—a place where live performance is celebrated and audiences engage with bold, audacious art. The 2026 festival defies the bounds of discipline with 25 presentations of theatre, dance, music, installation, film, and multimedia performance.
Among the offerings are six world premieres, beginning with Khalil Khalil at The NEST from January 23 to 25, by Palestine’s Khalil Albatran and Bilal Alkhatib. Carrying the name of his martyred brother, Khalil moves between presence and absence—an intimate search for self beyond the weight of inheritance.
WAIL. Photo by David Cooper
Khalil Khalil
WAIL by Vancouver’s Action at a Distance is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre on January 26 and 27, presented with Music on Main and The Dance Centre. Choreographed by Vanessa Goodman, WAIL moves through sound, light, and breath to reveal how joy endures within the noise of the world.
Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) by Zimbabwe’s Jerahuni Movement Factory is at Performance Works on January 27 and 28. On a sand-covered stage, four Zimbabwean dancers move through poles, elastics, and projected images, their bodies speaking what history has silenced.
On January 28 and 29, Remember that time we met in the future? by Montreal’s Lara Kramer is at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, presented with Matriarchs Uprising. Four Indigenous artists travel through nonlinear time amid a transforming landscape of salvaged materials, echoing both urban and land-based worlds.
Remember that time we met in the future?. Photo by Gaétan Paré
Catching Up to the Future of Our Past by Vancouver’s Plastic Orchid Factory is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre on January 30 and 31, presented with The Dance Centre. Set within a retro-futurist astral bubble, the work traces the elastic rhythms of midlife, where memory and possibility intertwine.
The highly anticipated Split Tooth: Saputjiji makes it world premiere at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on February 5, presented with the Chan Centre and Music on Main. Cambridge Bay, Nunavut-born Inuk artist Tanya Tagaq, a Polaris Prize and Juno Award winner, expands the world of her acclaimed book and merges vocal landscapes into a staged environment that blurs music and memory, landscape and breath, body and cosmos.
Browse the full 2026 program and purchase tickets through pushfestival.ca.
Post sponsored by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
Split Tooth: Saputjiji. Photo by Celina Kalluk
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