PuSh Blog

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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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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Rainbow Chan Live at the Dream Factory

November 12, 2025

Image description: An Asian woman sits in profile in the centre of a surreal installation: layers of human-sized wavy rings, that get smaller as they receded into the distance, create a portal of hazy blues and greens. Dressed in a flesh-toned leotard and melon-orange high-heels, the woman sits in one of these wavy rings, fitting her spine against the curved bottomw, and stretching her bare leg upward along the curved edge. Her energy appears calm in the centre of this constructed vortex.

Cantopop // Migration // Identity Rainbow Chan is a Hong Kong-Australian vocalist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist celebrated for her inventive blend of heartfelt melodies, textured electronic production, and culturally rich storytelling. Her sound—both tender […]

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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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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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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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