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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Industry Brunch

November 01, 2016

PuSh Youth Assembly, 2016 PuSh Festival

On the last day of the Festival, join fellow PuSh Assembly Industry participants for a farewell brunch. Light brunch buffet provided.

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Persona: Performing Yourself with Jibz Cameron

November 01, 2016

Dynasty Handbag, Jibz Cameron, 2017 PuSh Festival

This workshop brings you a condensed version of a course that Jibz Cameron (a.k.a. Dynasty Handbag) teaches in the MFA Performance Studies Department at NYU. The Persona workshop is designed to help participants create a […]

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PushOFF Mixer

November 01, 2016

PushOFF 2015, Theatre Replacement

Join PushOFF producers and artists for an informal meet-and-greet. PushOFF, produced by Theatre Replacement in partnership with Company 605, is an independent, curated platform of tour-ready projects and works in development by Canadian artists, taking […]

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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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Pitch Session

November 01, 2016

Pitch Session, 2016 PuSh Festival

Eight selected applicants give a 10-minute pitch of their new and upcoming projects to an audience of producers, artistic directors, festival curators, presenters and programmers.

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Keynote Address: Jess Thom

November 01, 2016

Touretteshero, Backstage in Biscuit Land, 2017 PuSh Festival

Writer, performer and artist Jess Thom (Backstage in Biscuit Land) has Tourette syndrome and co-founded Touretteshero as a creative response to her experience of living with the condition. Thom debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, […]

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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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