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Curatorial Statements

The Culture of Economics in Vancouver – A Curatorial Statement on eatingthegame by Theatre Conspiracy’s Artistic Producer Tim Carlson

November 24, 2014

Exploring the international economic landscape’s ripple effects on our culture locally, is Hong Kong Exile’s eatingthegame presented by Club PuSh and Theatre Conspiracy. We invited Tim Carlson, playwright and artistic producer of Theatre Conspiracy, to prepare us […]

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The Challenge of Christeene – A Curatorial Statement by Norman Armour

November 24, 2014

Shameless. Filthy. Scary. Mythic. These are just some of the terms that surface when Christeene is brought up. Christeene’s shows, like The Christeene Machine, are the stuff of rock legend meets wasted gutter flashbacks. If you want […]

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Séquence 8: Masterful, Tender, and Mind-Blowing – A Curatorial Statement by Théâtre la Seizième’s Artistic & Managing Director Craig Holzschuh

November 24, 2014

7 doigts de la main, Sequence 8, 2015 PuSh Festival

The PuSh Festival further ventures into surprising forms of performing arts in 2015, from magic theatre with Bullet Catch to the dizzying heights of Les 7 doigts de la main’s Séquence 8. The latter is a […]

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2015 PuSh Festival Curatorial Message from Associate Curator Joyce Rosario

November 12, 2014

Joyce Rosario

A note on making your list for this year’s PuSh Festival: Choose a thread and follow it through the 2015 programming. Be delighted, astonished and disarmed by ideas and artists that defy expectation and shift […]

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A Message from Artistic & Executive Director Norman Armour

November 12, 2014

Norman Armour

Welcome to the 2015 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Have a read. Make your list, and perhaps choose something a little unfamiliar. PuSh is nothing if not an adventure. As the Festival faces the prospect […]

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Curatorial Statement – Usually Beauty Fails

January 28, 2014

Curatorially speaking, Usually Beauty Fails captures the contemporary exploration of dance, theatre and music working side-by-side. With this show these disciplines intersect, collide, almost seemingly inside of one another. Most interestingly, how each art form provokes […]

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Curatorial Statement: Week 3 at Club PuSh

January 27, 2014

“Huff is the most affecting piece of theatre I’ve seen in the last decade.” High praise in a CBC interview with our friend and colleague Eric Epstein, who programmed Cliff Cardinal’s play at the Yukon […]

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Curatorial Statement – Mixtape with Gabriel Kahane & Timo Andres

January 22, 2014

A couple of years ago, Gabriel Kahane, Timo Andres, and I had dinner in New York to hatch plans for each of them to make music in Vancouver. Gabe had played for Music on Main […]

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