PuSh Blog

G. Lucas Crane’s virtuoso performance on a mad assemblage of old cassette decks, faders, effect pedals, cameras and monitors is thrilling to behold. But virtuosity is just not enough – for either him or his […]

There are a handful of artists and groups that PuSh has presented on multiple occasions. The list is preciously short: Marianno Pensotti, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long, Darren O’Donnell, Tim Crouch, and Rabih Mroué. Theatre-maker, […]

The PuSh Festival has continued to develop it’s reputation and role as a broker of international partnerships, and as an incubator of brilliant new work from Canada. It’s no surprise then, that we would also […]

Music on Main and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival first partnered in 2009 for the long-overdue Vancouver premiere of Steve Reich’s Drumming.  Every year since then, we’ve worked hand-in-hand to bring together great musicians […]

Life as a loop. Again, again, again, again, again, again. The never-ending pain. No resolution. Old scars. Pick, pick, pick. A Lucinda Williams song on repeat. Beckett on 11RPM; if he had been a true, […]

I don’t recall when I first heard Fond of Tigers. Maybe when I was working in the entertainment department at the Vancouver Sun and they had a Vancouver International Jazz Festival gig or maybe when the […]

Nouveau Cirque debuted in France in the 1970s, breaking away from traditional circus in a number of ways: challenging the circular presentation style, not using animals in performances, and performing sequential acts that involve a […]