PuSh Blog

Youth Assembly

November 11, 2015

2015 Youth Assembly

The Youth Assembly, now in its second year, is a free day-long performance arts conference just for arts-minded young people who hope to pursue a life or maybe a career immersed in and around the performing […]

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An Evening with Roomful of Teeth

November 04, 2015

Roomful of Teeth, Music on Main, 2016 PuSh Festival

It’s all a cappella singing, but they’re “a band, not a choir,” says Brad Wells of his ensemble Roomful of Teeth. And a roomful is what it sounds like—a veritable throng of vocal styles, spanning […]

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Anthropologies Imaginaires

November 04, 2015

Anthropologies Imaginaires, Gabriel Dharmoo, Music on Main, 2016 PuSh Festival

A distinguished composer and vocalist, Gabriel Dharmoo mixes musical styles to create discourse and dialogue. He’s an artist interested not only in music, but in what it can represent, and how it can be used […]

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L’immédiat

November 04, 2015

L'immédiat, Association Immédiat, 2016 PuSh Festival

Here the adventurous spirit of the avant-garde meets the crowd-pleasing slapstick of circus comedy. Camille Boitel’s Association Immédiat is a company out to wow us; their raison d’être is to shake up our ideas about […]

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Riding on a Cloud

November 04, 2015

Riding on a Cloud, Rabih Mroué, 2016 PuSh Festival

Rabih Mroué is an internationally acclaimed performer, visual artist, director and playwright. Video and photography play a part in his investigation of the ways in which we express ourselves, and the ways in which we […]

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Eternal

November 04, 2015

Eternal, Daniel Fish, 2016 PuSh Festival

In this cunning avant-garde piece, the subject at first appears to be love, but creator Daniel Fish has a few wild cards up his sleeve, and by the end we’ve experienced nothing less than a […]

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Huff

November 04, 2015

Huff, Native Earth Performing Arts/Cliff Cardinal, 2016 PuSh Festival

Indigenous playwright and performer Cliff Cardinal is one of the brightest-burning lights in Canadian theatre; he’s an energetic stage presence and a caustic and fearless writer. “Huff” is what you do with gasoline when you’re […]

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Relative Collider

November 04, 2015

Relative Collider, Liz Santoro, 2016 PuSh Festival

Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have crafted a dance performance as pleasurable to contemplate as it is to watch. From the suspense of small movements to the eruption of sweeping motion, the show takes us […]

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