PuSh Blog

OUT

November 07, 2024

Under a charged nightclub haze, two performers move with electric intimacy, flirting, teasing, shape-shifting. Immersed in the bittersweet fragrance of oranges, OUT is a defiant challenge to the status quo that bravely carves out a […]

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Habitat

November 07, 2024

Hermit crabs don’t have shells. Instead they improvise homes from objects that catch their eye, then migrate to new and more hospitable residences as they outgrow their makeshift dwellings. Drawing inspiration from the resourceful adaptability […]

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Bijuriya

November 07, 2024

A south-asian drag artist wears a gold, crushed-velvet leotard with matching knee-high high-heeled boots. The artist is caught mid gesture and mid word, reaching out with a look of shock on their face. In the background, an array of wigs perch atop a small cluster of mannequin heads.

Gabriel Dharmoo is an innovative music composer and vocalist who thrives on experimentation. Bijuriya, his drag persona, channels the vibrancy of South Asian culture to touch the hearts of fellow brown queers. Together, Gabriel and […]

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Ramanenjana

November 14, 2023

A wide shot of three performers looking directly into the camera in various poses. The performer in the centre is a woman looking directly into the camera. She is in a wide stance, holding up one finger on each hand. The performer on the left is twisting her body towards the center. The performer on the right is a man lunging forward with both his arms raised behind his back.

Ramanenjana is a witty, captivating docufiction performance about a dance event that made history.  In Malagasy, Ramanenjana means something that makes you rigid but also makes you strong, but the dance was pathologized, labeled part […]

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NOMADA

November 14, 2023

A photo of a woman balancing on two pots. A scarf is draped over her head. She is holding another pot up with stretched arms.

NOMADA is a journey of the Creator through three worlds; Sky World, Underworld, and Earth. This journey helps maintain harmony of all the earthly and cosmological elements. It is the physical and spiritual act of […]

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PLI

November 14, 2023

A performer lies on a pile of twisted branches holding up a wooden pole struck through three floating layers of paper.

A circus artist and two visual artists come together over paper. From the blank page to the crumpled draft, paper carries our innermost thoughts and universal truths: a witness to the everyday. What else can […]

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Deciphers

November 14, 2023

A black and white photo of two performers on the floor. The performer on the left hides their face with their body tensed. The performer on the right is looking up. Their neck is outstretched, with one leg extended, and one hand pressed on the floor.

Deciphers is a conversation of words, movement and stillness. Two artists from migrant backgrounds decipher each other and the languages that ground them through intense, physical performances that embrace elements of Chinese Folk Dance, Brazilian […]

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because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it)

November 14, 2023

A layered photo of a brown man with black and white squares painted on his body. He is captured dancing in three poses. The foreground shows him gracefully swaying his arms upward. On the left, his upper body is curved towards the sky. On the right, he is looking up his face showing white paint, with his arm raised in a fist.

A random encounter with a camera on the streets of Tallinn, Estonia made choreographer and dancer Rakesh Sukesh a momentary poster boy for a right wing news channel’s campaign against immigration from Asia and Africa.  […]

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