PuSh Blog

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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L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie

November 14, 2023

A man with graying hair sits on the backrest of the sofa clutching it tightly. Beside him, is a Black woman who appears to be sleeping, her feet hanging off the edge of the seat.

(Love Like a Buried Cathedral) PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series With staggering subtlety and lyricism, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie tells the story of exiled Haitian families through opera-theatre. Born into just such a […]

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Returns

November 14, 2023

A person standing in an uneven stance with one leg far behind the other. The person is wearing a shirt that is pulled over their head and torso, and red socks with holes in them.

Note: This installation is open to the public from Jan 7–Feb 3. Visitors are free to come and go during the installation’s opening hours.  An imaginative convergence of dance, labour and garment fabrication, Returns is […]

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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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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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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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DARKMATTER

November 14, 2023

Two Black performers captured intensely mid-dance. The Black man on the left has a buzzcut, one of his arms is raised, with both hands in a fist. The Black man on the right has long hair, posing similarly, except with one hand open. They are both looking at the ground.

PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series “Body, can you become hypothetical? A galaxy in full gear acceleration? A liquid star monster, failing to die?”  Moving with otherworldly intensity through a collision of gritty physicality and […]

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O’DD

November 04, 2022

A performer, barefoot and wearing a yellow jumpsuit, jumps high in the air with arms gesticulating. In the background are red stage lights and red fabric hangings.

Mesmerizing, metaphorical and full of superb acrobatics, this is a circus performance like no other. It begins with an evocation of birth, as a naked man slowly rips his way out through a giant piece […]

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