PuSh Blog

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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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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