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Youth Assembly

November 11, 2015

2015 Youth Assembly

The Youth Assembly, now in its second year, is a free day-long performance arts conference just for arts-minded young people who hope to pursue a life or maybe a career immersed in and around the performing […]

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Dialogue: Keynote Address by Ron Berry

November 07, 2015

Fusebox Festival logo

Ron Berry is the artistic director of Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas. Fusebox is to Austin as PuSh is to Vancouver; both founded in 2005, they share many affinities and curatorial sensibilities. April 2016 marks […]

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Dialogue: Artist Talk with Rabih Mroué

November 07, 2015

Riding on a Cloud, Rabih Mroué, 2016 PuSh Festival

Riding on a Cloud marks Rabih Mroué’s third visit to the PuSh Festival. Winner of the 2010 Spalding Grey Award, his work draws attention to Lebanon’s political and economic climate through semi-documentary theatre that is […]

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Dialogue: In Conversation with ILBIJERRI Theatre

November 07, 2015

Jack Charles V. the Crown, ILBIJERRI Theatre, 2016 PuSh Festival

ILBIJERRI Theatre (Jack Charles V. the Crown) is Australia’s longest running Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander theatre company—creating, presenting and touring theatre that is creatively controlled by Indigenous artists. Their work gives voice to diverse […]

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Critical Ideas: Critical (Un)Impressions—Theatre and Performance in Canada Today

November 07, 2015

Touring Intensive with Sherrie Johnson, 2015 PuSh Assembly

Like many audience members, Jordan Tannahill has a low threshold for boredom. The Toronto playwright, director, filmmaker and Club PuSh Curator-in-Residence has written a book about his yearlong quest for vital, risk-taking performance. Critically opinionated […]

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Critical Ideas: Vancouver Dance Aesthetics in an (Inter)National Frame

November 07, 2015

Touring Intensive with Sherrie Johnson, 2015 PuSh Assembly

Vancouver is a hotbed of choreographic experimentation, dance training and a destination for touring companies. On the occasion of PuSh’s presentation of The Holy Body Tattoo’s monumental, we gather local dance artists to situate their […]

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Critical Ideas: Voice in Performance

November 07, 2015

Touring Intensive with Sherrie Johnson, 2015 PuSh Assembly

From Jimmy to Jerk, from Taylor Mac to Tanya Tagaq, PuSh performances over the years have offered various presentations of the human voice. Drawing on their practice-based research in sensory ethnography, theatre studies, Indigenous studies […]

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Sol

November 07, 2015

Sol, Film Series, 2016 PuSh Festival

“In 2013, there were 45 suicides in Nunavut. Thirteen times higher than the national average.” So begins this deeply necessary film that explores the life and death of Solomon Tapatia Uyarasak, a 26-year-old Inuk actor […]

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