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Curatorial Statements

Intimacy: Beautiful and touching devised theatre – A Curatorial Statement by Norman Armour

January 07, 2016

Intimacy, Ranters Theatre, 2016 PuSh Festival

Some shows scream for attention. Others are far quieter—they whisper in your ear. At first not being sure of what you’re hearing, or even the direction from which you are being beckoned, the work subtly, […]

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Spotlight on France

November 09, 2015

L'immédiat, Association Immédiat, 2016 PuSh Festival

This year’s Spotlight on France brings to our Vancouver stages a very special glimpse into the French performing arts milieu.

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The 2015 PuSh Assembly (Part 3): Community

February 02, 2015

Winners and Losers, Jamie Long, Marcus Yousseff, 2013 PuSh Festival

Here we go: the home stretch of the 2015 PuSh Festival! Within our office walls, we lovingly describe the experience of the Festival as a series of weddings celebrated night-after-night. Some are of the more […]

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Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society

January 30, 2015

Only a Freee Individual Can Create a Free Society, 2015 PuSh Festival

I was first aware of Grace Schwindt’s work a few years ago. There was something about her videos, the use of choreography, of working with dancers, the very nature of the costumes and settings in […]

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Time Machine – A Curatorial Statement by The Dance Centre’s Mirna Zagar

January 28, 2015

MACHiNENOiSY, Time Machine, 2015 PuSh Festival

Extraordinary, imaginative, innovative, sensual, rule-breaking and always with a dose of humour – is what I would use to describe the unique world of Machinenoisy and author of Time Machine, Delia Brett. In Time Machine, […]

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Char Bagh: We must cultivate our garden – A Curatorial Statement by Digital Handloom’s Manjot Bains & Naveen Girn

January 28, 2015

2015 PuSh Festival, Nisha Sembi, Char Bagh, Digital Handloom

http://vimeo.com/75654247 Over the past five years, artists within the South Asian diaspora have been experimenting with the tools of storytellers – manipulating and reconstructing these forms to make them speak new tongues through digital media, […]

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Dark Matter: Explaining Time and Gravity – A Curatorial Statement by Joyce Rosario

January 24, 2015

Dark Matter, Kate McIntosh, 2015 PuSh Festival

How do you explain something that we cannot see nor measure, but know exists because of its affect? Sometimes when curating the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Norman and I will research the old fashioned way – […]

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Why We Fight – An Introduction to Steppenwolf & Fight with a Stick by Co-Artistic Director, Alex Laziridis Ferguson

January 18, 2015

Steppenwolf, Fight With a Stick, 2015 PuSh Festival

It was November 4th, the night of the first board meeting for the new company, Fight with a Stick. My co-artistic director Steven Hill had just finished talking about why the old company name, Leaky […]

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