PuSh Blog

JEZEBEL

November 07, 2025

Image description: A Black woman straddles a low-rider bicycle with gold spokes and long shiny handlebars. Dressed in a matching crisp white crop top and short shorts, she looks out to the audience with her mouth open, as though she's in the middle of shouting "hey!".

Reclamation // Gaze // Remix Through a collision of physical performance, hip hop visual language, and the slowed, distorted flow of chopped-and-screwed sound, JEZEBEL reclaims the hyper-sexualized image of the “video vixen” that defined hip […]

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Catching Up to the Future of Our Past 

November 06, 2025

Image description: Two dancers wearing astronaut helmets create an absurd scene: one sits with her back to us in a lawn chair under a reading lamp while the other holds up a watering can, partially obscured by an array of potted tropical plants.

Time // Memory // Motion Two bodies meet, orbiting between what was and what might be. Catching Up to the Future of Our Past invites audiences into the strange terrain of midlife—where time gathers, stretches, […]

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Bardaje

November 06, 2025

Image description: A solo performer is caught mid-movement, his head turned sideways and body curved. His striking attire leaves much of his tan skin exposed. He wears sleeves adorned with ayoyotes, which are ancestral seeds that rattle, a long beaded turquoise necklace looped many times around his neck, and a white loin cloth. His long hair, worn in a ponytail that streams forward from the top of his head, as well as his skin and attire, are covered with an uneven layer of pale ash.

Embodiment // Resistance // Ancestry Rooted in Zapotec understandings of muxheidad, Bardaje reanimates a word used to enforce difference with the gestures, memories, and cosmologies it once pushed to the margins. The work emerges from […]

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2026 Opening Party

January 03, 2025

Celebrate // Audacious // Community Raise the curtain on PuSh 2026 with a luminous night of live electronic performance and dance.Palestinian DJ and composer Khalil Albatran merges abstract sound with collective memory in a kinetic search for […]

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Club PuSh

November 18, 2024

Club PuSh is teaming up once again with QT Cabaret on Wednesday, January 29th! This annual party, curated by the frank theatre’s artistic director Fay Nass, will be held at the iconic Fox Cabaret—once a […]

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Dune Wars Kiki Ball

November 15, 2024

In an opulent ballroom, a performer struts down a runway lined with rows of cheering, grinning audience. Dressed in a colourful short skirt with a hand-painted fish tail, her bare back is visible as she strides away.

On February 2, the cosmic forces of Van Vogue Jam and PuSh Festival converge for a showdown of galactic proportions: Dune Wars Kiki Ball. Hosted by the Kiki Legendary Overall Mother Posh Gvasalia, this astro-glam […]

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Dances for a Small Stage

November 12, 2024

PuSh Festival and Small Stage are teaming up to bring back this critically acclaimed and wildly popular Vancouver institution—and this time, it’s bolder and braver than ever. With a spotlight on the power of intersectional […]

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Inner Sublimity

November 12, 2024

Inner Sublimity traverses currents of Eastern and Western philosophy through dance, creating a dynamic dialogue between traditions preserved across generations. This cross-pollination bridges Taiwan’s heritage, grounded in reverence and ritual, with Europe’s tapestry of religious […]

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