PuSh Blog

Transpofagic Manifesto

November 08, 2024

Transpofagic Manifesto is a courageous and thought-provoking work that challenges commonly-held views around gender diversity. Renata Carvalho, a Brazilian human rights activist, reclaims the term “travesti” to describe a distinct transfeminine identity with a history […]

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The Goldberg Variations

November 07, 2024

What are the blueprints of sexual desire and fantasy? In this unapologetic investigation of power dynamics and identity, Clayton Lee invites the audience to confront that very question through an intimate and unfiltered reckoning of […]

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Dimanche

November 07, 2024

A man dressed for winter stares dead ahead with piercing eyes. He sits at a snow-white table scattered with miniature trees and a few tiny houses. His arm, which rests on the table, is an extension of the landscape, with little houses and trees sprouting from him as though he were a mountain.

In a world teetering on the edge, a family gathers for a seemingly ordinary Sunday. Yet little by little, everything around them crumbles under the devastating effects of natural disasters. Regardless, they cling to their […]

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OUT

November 07, 2024

Under a charged nightclub haze, two performers move with electric intimacy, flirting, teasing, shape-shifting. Immersed in the bittersweet fragrance of oranges, OUT is a defiant challenge to the status quo that bravely carves out a […]

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The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

November 14, 2023

A man sits on a couch leaning away from what appears to be a taxidermy tiger. Behind him is a wall of mounted animal taxidermy heads.

When AI takes over from human intelligence, how will people be treated? Weaving a narrative through human rights, sexual politics, and the projected dominance of artificial intelligence, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is […]

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Ramanenjana

November 14, 2023

A wide shot of three performers looking directly into the camera in various poses. The performer in the centre is a woman looking directly into the camera. She is in a wide stance, holding up one finger on each hand. The performer on the left is twisting her body towards the center. The performer on the right is a man lunging forward with both his arms raised behind his back.

Ramanenjana is a witty, captivating docufiction performance about a dance event that made history.  In Malagasy, Ramanenjana means something that makes you rigid but also makes you strong, but the dance was pathologized, labeled part […]

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Sound of the Beast

November 14, 2023

A person half-kneeling with crossed arms while holding a mic. The person is looking up at the light, There is a woman projected behind them.

“I’m not here to tell you how to feel. I’m just here to tell you what happened.”  Urgent, intimate and magnetic, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard gives a performance of profound poetic justice with storytelling, spoken word […]

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L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie

November 14, 2023

A man with graying hair sits on the backrest of the sofa clutching it tightly. Beside him, is a Black woman who appears to be sleeping, her feet hanging off the edge of the seat.

(Love Like a Buried Cathedral) PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series With staggering subtlety and lyricism, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie tells the story of exiled Haitian families through opera-theatre. Born into just such a […]

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