January 20, 2018
The Eternal Tides, a North American premiere, is one of the most ambitious undertakings in the PuSh Festival’s 14-year history—in scale, technical and touring challenges. 32 people on the road from Taipei to Ottawa, to Montreal, […]
Read More Read more about A force of nature: The Eternal Tides—A curatorial statement by Norman ArmourJanuary 18, 2018
When Anders Breivik murdered 68 young people and severely injured 56 others on the island of Utøya, Norway in 2011, he committed a strategic act of hatred intended to separate people. Ironically his actions brought a global […]
Read More Read more about Seeing the humanity in The Events—A curatorial statement by Richard WolfeJanuary 17, 2018
Every year, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival raises $2 million to bring the world’s live performing arts to Vancouver. One-third of that revenue comes from people like you. You make the PuSh Festival possible […]
Read More Read more about You can make double the difference at the 2018 PuSh FestivalJanuary 16, 2018
Patrick Keating is a journeyman. In all senses of the term. As a theatre artist, he has done his basic training. He has cut his teeth on both the somewhat easy and the somewhat more […]
Read More Read more about One of the really good ones: Inside/Out—A curatorial statement by Norman ArmourJanuary 12, 2018
A bare stage, a soundtrack of manipulated sounds that signify a lifetime through voices, stories and song; those items we cling to, those things that help us to immortalize what we have lost. A chair […]
Read More Read more about Bearing witness: I’m Not Here—A curatorial statement by Ann ConnorsJanuary 11, 2018
What you do next can be as important as what you do first. In 2014, the PuSh Festival presented Usually Beauty Fails by Montreal choreographer Frédérick Gravel. In 2018, we will present his latest work […]
Read More Read more about Some Hope for the Bastards—A curatorial statement by Norman ArmourJanuary 09, 2018
I had a very personal reaction to Reassembled, Slightly Askew. A few months before I experienced the show, a family member experienced multiple brain seizures and I was one of the caregivers. Until this had happened […]
Read More Read more about The profound mystery of Reassembled, Slightly Askew—A curatorial statement by Heather RedfernDecember 08, 2017
Prior to Antonio Sánchez being thrust into the limelight with his mind-bending drum score to the Oscar-winning film Birdman, Sánchez was already one of the most in-demand and highly regarded percussionists in jazz. I had […]
Read More Read more about An untraditional, breakout star: Antonio Sánchez (BiRDMAN: LiVE)—A curatorial statement by Fiona BlackWhen you make a gift to the PuSh Festival, you help us to present the very best in contemporary performance from around the world.