PuSh Blog

Khalil Khalil

November 12, 2025

Image description: A young man stares out from stage with intensity holding a microphone. His eyes have no colour, giving him the appearance of being haunted. Warm light bathes his olive skin.

Memory // Inheritance // Individuality How does a name shape a destiny? Khalil Albatran was named for his brother, a martyr of the First Palestinian Intifada. In a family where the name carries both honour […]

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Kamwe Kamwe

November 08, 2025

Image description: A kneeling performer bows, forehead to ground, in the middle of a stage covered with projected archival photographs of Black people with grave expressions. The floor of the stage is covered in sand, and long strips of tape crisscross the stage above the prostrate performer.

Presence // Resistance // Remembrance Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) is a force of movement and song—a meeting of ancestral rhythm and contemporary resistance. On a sand-covered stage, four Zimbabwean dancers move through a terrain […]

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Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience

November 07, 2025

Image description: On a pitch black stage, three women's faces are illuminated from below with flashlights. Their shadowy expressions are serious, as though peering into an unknown darkness.

Empathy // Resilience // Fragility In Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience, the political becomes profoundly personal.  Drawn from the words of Ukrainian playwright Anastasiia Kosodii, this delicate yet […]

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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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askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ

November 06, 2025

Image description: A performer crouches on a dim stage amidst a complex array of technical equipment, like monitors, projectors and microphone stands. Behind them, an image of a mountainous horizon superimposed over itself creates misty blue layers.

Land // Memory // Future Part live cinema, part ecological opera, askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ conjures a cosmology of land, memory, and time. This operatic multimedia performance transforms a miniature film set—complete with cameras, mylar, mirrors, and […]

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2021

November 04, 2025

Memory // Simulation // Afterlife Under the glow of a flickering screen, a daughter reconstructs her deceased father. Pixel by pixel, contradiction by contradiction. 2021 is a live performance where theatre, AI, and video-game storytelling […]

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SEEING DOUBLE // Walking at Night by Myself

November 15, 2024

Two blurry figures run in different directions on a dark stage against a striped backdrop like faded yellow wallpaper. The edges of the blurry figures are tinted with red and green light, lending them the quality of a digital glitch.

SEEING DOUBLE is an homage to spooky late-night double features, a cerebral marathon that keeps the audience on edge through vivid surround sound and optical illusion. These two performances are strange sisters that sneak pulpy […]

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SEEING DOUBLE // K BODY AND MIND

November 15, 2024

Two asian performers stand on an empty stage under unforgiving light. The first woman wears a severe, focussed expression, underscored by her futuristic structured grey top. In the background, the second performer, dressed in matching garb, faces away and reaches above her head.

SEEING DOUBLE is an homage to spooky late-night double features, a cerebral marathon that keeps the audience on edge through vivid surround sound and optical illusion. These two performances are strange sisters that sneak pulpy […]

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