PuSh Blog

Wayqeycuna

November 12, 2025

Image description: Outdoors against a backdrop of the misty mountains, two Indigenous men stare forwards with serious, engaging expressions. Both wrap bright blankets, embroidered exquisitely with bold colourful flowers, around their shoulders, covering their bodies and further emphasizing their serious faces.

Presenting Supporter: The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund Memory // Ancestry // Resistance Like a quipu—the intricate system of knotted cords used by Andean peoples to record memory and knowledge—Wayqeycuna traces Argentinean artist Tiziano Cruz’s path back […]

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WAIL

November 12, 2025

Image description: Six dancers are caught mid-action, each body making a different shape. They hold microphones with long colourful cords that hang and twist between them like squiggles on a page.

Resonance // Ecology // Joy WAIL is a choreographic poem for our fractured moment.  Six performers move through a shifting landscape of sound, light, and breath, their bodies echoing the patterns and distortions of the […]

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Trouble Score

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two performers stand close to each other, eyes looking upward pensively between beams of blue light, filled with swirling haze. One reaches her fingers into the light, like dipping into another realm.

Magic Realism // Myth // Ritual Part ritual, part pop concert, Trouble Score is a hallucinatory portrait of family myth refracted through the lens of magic realism. Weaving multi-layered text, vocals, sound samples, and live […]

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The Motha’ Kiki Ball

November 12, 2025

Image description: A Black femme steps onto the runway in gorgeous golden vogue ball attire: impeccable makeup framed by an elegant gold headpice, a structured gold bodice, generous flakes of gold on her tights. She holds up her immense jacket so that a huge swath of luxurious gold fabric drapes over her head and frames her form.

Origin // Creation // Legacy From vogue to runway, The Motha’ Kiki Ball crowns motherhood as the origin story, legacy, and creative force behind Ballroom. Black Out, a collective centering Blackness in the local Kiki […]

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TESTO

November 12, 2025

Image description: A trans-masculine drag artist stands on a dark stage, holding an LED-sign where the word "now" glows red. Their bald head is turned in profile, with a checkerboard smile painted across their face. They wear a billowing white coat made of luxuriously gauzy material, which hangs open, exposing a flat, muscular chest.

Mess // Desire // Becoming TESTO celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming. Here, performance and reality blur until what’s made-up somehow […]

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Split Tooth: Saputjiji

November 12, 2025

Image description: Outdoors, an Indigenous woman looks proudly into the distance. She wears an embroidered headband, an ornate red coat, and a Palestinian keffiyeh tucked neatly around her shoulders under the oppulent folds of her coat's collar. Behind her is a cloudless blue sky.

Voice // Mythic // Futurism Split Tooth: Saputjiji is a new performance of Tanya Tagaq’s, drawing from her acclaimed book Split Tooth and her new album Saputjiji. Tagaq’s vocal power collapses boundaries. Her performance summons […]

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SLUGS

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two performers with expressions of frozen panic crouch towards each other. Dressed in bold colours with bright eyeshadow and drawn-on moustahces, each one cups the other's face between their hands.

Anarchic // Absurdist // Cathartic It’s about nothing. We promise. From the award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger), this anarchic fever dream is a techno-punk concert, a play, a clown show, […]

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Kiuryaq

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two figures are silouetted on a ridge against the bright background of the northern lights, which fills the sky with glowing greens and pinks.

Light // Ancestry // Connection The Northern Lights have always carried stories—frightening, spiritual, epic, and playful. Kiuryaq is a circumpolar performance exploring our relationship with the Northern Lights—“kiuryaq” in Inuvialuktun—created through collaboration among Indigenous and […]

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