PuSh Blog

Critical Ideas: Curation At The Crossroads Of Performance And Visual Art

November 01, 2016

PuSh Youth Assembly, 2016 PuSh Festival

Today audiences are as likely to encounter dance in a museum as they are mixed-media installations on stage. As performance becomes an increasingly important part of the exhibition and collecting mandates of art galleries, and […]

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Critical Ideas: Adaptation In Performance

November 01, 2016

PuSh Youth Assembly, 2016 PuSh Festival

Performance has always borrowed from other media and in theatre there is nothing like a familiar story retold. With new versions of iconic tales by Shakespeare and William Faulkner at PuSh this year, theorists and […]

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Artist Talk: Bridget Moser

November 01, 2016

Things a Person is Supposed to Wonder, Bridget Moser, 2017 PuSh Festival

Experiments in Comedy: Bridget Moser and Guests Bridget Moser (Things A Person Is Supposed To Wonder) creates unclassifiable performances frequently draw on tropes of standup comedy to disarming ends. She joins performance legend Margaret Dragu, emerging […]

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Panel Discussion: Arts, Access & Inclusion

November 01, 2016

PuSh Youth Assembly, 2016 PuSh Festival

With the opening of Backstage in Biscuit Land, we discuss the state of inclusion with regard to producers, artists and audience members who identify as Deaf, disabled or on the autism spectrum. How is accessibility […]

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Artist Talk: Caroline Horton

November 01, 2016

Mess, Caroline Horton & Co., 2017 PuSh Festival

Caroline Horton (Mess) is an award-winning English artist whose work is as fun as it is profound. It’s often personal, sometimes political. She specializes in creating solo shows, and turning personal stories into theatre, games and […]

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Artist Talk: Alessandro Sciarroni

November 01, 2016

FOLK-S, Alessandro Sciarroni, 2017 PuSh Festival

Alessandro Sciarroni’s (FOLK-S, Will you still love me tomorrow?) background is in visual arts and theatre, but his work is most often presented by dance festivals. His Will you still love me tomorrow? trilogy—which comprises […]

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Critical Ideas: Home, Memory, Land

November 01, 2016

PuSh Youth Assembly, 2016 PuSh Festival

On the occasion of Canada’s sesquicentennial, and in dialogue with Black Arm Band’s dirtsong, this panel considers the stories we are telling about our country on and off the stage. From Indigenous sovereignty to pipelines […]

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A Conversation Harold Budd

December 23, 2015

Harold Budd, 2016 PuSh Festival

Tireless at age 79, Harold Budd is an American composer who just debuted a new work of music and poetry in December 2015 (Aurora Tears, Heavenly Monkey Press). In the 40 years since Pavilion of […]

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