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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Le Beau Monde

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two men hold each other like teens at a highschool dance. They pucker their lips, but turn their heads away from eachother, towards the audience. Behind them, a third performer watches anxiously.

Ritual // Nostalgia // Absurdity In the future, theatre no longer exists. Neither do elections, football, or kissing. Or, at least not as it used to be. Three people stand before us—awkward, uncertain, sincere. They’ve […]

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La utopía de la mariposa / TIERRA

November 12, 2025

Image description: A collage of two images. First: Outdoors in a field of long grasses against a glowing dusk sky, a lone performer pours a basket of rose petals over his upturned face. His flat chest is bare, and he wears a full skirt of gold brocade and lace. Second: Light pours into the windows of an empty wooden-framed barn, illuminating the silouette of a performer dressed in the a lush dress and matching overcoat made of pale lace. Facing away, the figure holds the garment open, letting the light shine through the delicate cloth.

Queerness // Land // Resistance Two visionary films featuring Lukas Avendaño—an internationally acclaimed performance artist and leading voice of the Muxe community in Oaxaca’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec—trace the intersections of body, land, and resistance within […]

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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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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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