At PuSh Festival, artists play off themes of strength and fragility by using paper for aerial stunts
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Through chorus song, live guitar, and more, Haitian director’s Creole-French production navigates experiences of uprooted families, care of Théâtre la Seizième, PuSh Festival, and SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs
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PuSh Festival duet with Camilo Mejía Cortés plays with distortion through a hip-hop music technique, rap-anthem choir, black paint, and more
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Free-associative stories and dance stitched loosely together to match ginormous sari tapestry that unfurls in Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival/The Cultch show
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Artist’s Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival solo because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) was a close collaboration with award-winning Vancouver playwright Marcus Youssef
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In New Works and PuSh Festival’s world premiere, performers draw upon experiences as immigrants from Brazil and China
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In a statement ahead of the festival, director of programming reflects on compiling “works that share a sense of cultural urgency”
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Music on Main and PuSh Festival present moving solo concert that began with a surprise envelope of cash and a desire to process loss
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The copresentation with Chutzpah! Festival sees paper used as an aerial rope, a dance partner, and more
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Ramanenjana takes a witty look back at a real mass-dance event in Madagascar, while BLOT – Body Line of Thought cultivates real bacteria
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Basel Zaraa had pledged to withdraw Dear Laila from PuSh if other play stayed on program
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Artist Basel Zaraa wants audiences to see how displacement affects people’s everyday lives
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As part of PuSh Festival at Scotiabank Dance Centre, performers disassemble clothing items, sew them into ever-shifting sculptural pieces, and then return them to original forms
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One piece highlights a dilemma between impulse and socially imposed morals, while the other offers perspective on forced displacement
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Gabrielle Martin converses with artists who are pushing boundaries and playing with form ahead of the festival’s run from January 18 to February 4
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The founder of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Rumble Theatre is being remembered for his generosity, mentorship, and infectious passion for the arts
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Tickets go on sale November 22 for offerings that range from a refugee-camp installation to a dance-circus set amid a surreal paper set
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With mesmerizing live music by Emad Armoush and a small army of toy soldiers, Itai Erdal confronts his past in Israel’s military
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Electric Company Theatre’s cinematic-feeling work about a mysterious call centre raises circling questions about existence
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The interdisciplinary artist’s performance at PuSh Festival draws on Anishinaabe teachings
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