PuSh Blog

WAIL

November 12, 2025

Image description: Six dancers are caught mid-action, each body making a different shape. They hold microphones with long colourful cords that hang and twist between them like squiggles on a page.

Resonance // Ecology // Joy WAIL is a choreographic poem for our fractured moment.  Six performers move through a shifting landscape of sound, light, and breath, their bodies echoing the patterns and distortions of the […]

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The Motha’ Kiki Ball

November 12, 2025

Image description: A Black femme steps onto the runway in gorgeous golden vogue ball attire: impeccable makeup framed by an elegant gold headpice, a structured gold bodice, generous flakes of gold on her tights. She holds up her immense jacket so that a huge swath of luxurious gold fabric drapes over her head and frames her form.

Origin // Creation // Legacy From vogue to runway, The Motha’ Kiki Ball crowns motherhood as the origin story, legacy, and creative force behind Ballroom. Black Out, a collective centering Blackness in the local Kiki […]

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The Brutal Joy

November 12, 2025

Image description: A light-skinned Black woman dressed impeccably in a tailored tan suit bends at the waist, staring with sharp eyes towards the ground before her, her elbow crooked precisely above her back. In the foreground, a second figure's face, also cast downwards, creates a blurred silouette.

Lineage // Style // Liberation  Dance as archive. Style as philosophy. The Brutal Joy slides between ritual and rebellion—part groove, part revelation, all liberation. An improvisational act of devotion to Black-living, The Brutal Joy merges […]

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SKIN

November 12, 2025

Image description: A performer sits on a blue bench, their face and most of their body covered by a blue sleeping bag. Their hands and one foot, the only parts of them that are visible, are tense, extended wide and folding in towards their shrouded body. Behind them, out of focus, a second dancer sits behind a sleeping bag in a similar position. Around them both, the ground is scattered with large grey sheets.

Presenting Supporter: The Parachute Fund Touch // Transformation // Relation Every body tells its story through the skin.  Constantly shifting through contact, the skin transforms—between bodies, and in its exchange with the earth, whose surface […]

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Remember that time we met in the future?

November 12, 2025

Image description: A performer with dark curly hair wears a leather jacket backwards and a single yellow glove. Their lower half is blocked by the strange things they carry, seemingly chosen as much for their colours and textures more as for their actual purppse: a blue water jug, a bunch of curly gold ribbon, a pink cord, and a crate full of folded clear plastic.

Heart // Time // Becoming Remember that time we met in the future? moves through a world in transformation—where land, light, sound, and memory converge. Within a shifting terrain of salvaged materials and spectral landscapes, […]

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Orpheus

November 12, 2025

Image description: At the centre of a tangled clump of dancers, a woman wraps her hands around the neck of a man who holds his hands up in a gesture of prayer. Behind them, a huge sheet drapes, dyed with a muted palette of greys and blues.

Descent // Transformation // Dream Orpheus reimagines the myth of descent as a visceral dance through darkness toward connection and renewal. Choreographer Alan Lake constructs an immersive world of image and movement where body, matter, […]

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Khalil Khalil

November 12, 2025

Image description: A young man stares out from stage with intensity holding a microphone. His eyes have no colour, giving him the appearance of being haunted. Warm light bathes his olive skin.

Memory // Inheritance // Individuality How does a name shape a destiny? Khalil Albatran was named for his brother, a martyr of the First Palestinian Intifada. In a family where the name carries both honour […]

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Kamwe Kamwe

November 08, 2025

Image description: A kneeling performer bows, forehead to ground, in the middle of a stage covered with projected archival photographs of Black people with grave expressions. The floor of the stage is covered in sand, and long strips of tape crisscross the stage above the prostrate performer.

Presence // Resistance // Remembrance Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) is a force of movement and song—a meeting of ancestral rhythm and contemporary resistance. On a sand-covered stage, four Zimbabwean dancers move through a terrain […]

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