PuSh Blog

SKIN

November 12, 2025

Image description: A performer sits on a blue bench, their face and most of their body covered by a blue sleeping bag. Their hands and one foot, the only parts of them that are visible, are tense, extended wide and folding in towards their shrouded body. Behind them, out of focus, a second dancer sits behind a sleeping bag in a similar position. Around them both, the ground is scattered with large grey sheets.

Presenting Supporter: The Parachute Fund Touch // Transformation // Relation Every body tells its story through the skin.  Constantly shifting through contact, the skin transforms—between bodies, and in its exchange with the earth, whose surface […]

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JEZEBEL

November 07, 2025

Image description: A Black woman straddles a low-rider bicycle with gold spokes and long shiny handlebars. Dressed in a matching crisp white crop top and short shorts, she looks out to the audience with her mouth open, as though she's in the middle of shouting "hey!".

Reclamation // Gaze // Remix Through a collision of physical performance, hip hop visual language, and the slowed, distorted flow of chopped-and-screwed sound, JEZEBEL reclaims the hyper-sexualized image of the “video vixen” that defined hip […]

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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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PLI

November 14, 2023

A performer lies on a pile of twisted branches holding up a wooden pole struck through three floating layers of paper.

A circus artist and two visual artists come together over paper. From the blank page to the crumpled draft, paper carries our innermost thoughts and universal truths: a witness to the everyday. What else can […]

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DARKMATTER

November 14, 2023

Two Black performers captured intensely mid-dance. The Black man on the left has a buzzcut, one of his arms is raised, with both hands in a fist. The Black man on the right has long hair, posing similarly, except with one hand open. They are both looking at the ground.

PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series “Body, can you become hypothetical? A galaxy in full gear acceleration? A liquid star monster, failing to die?”  Moving with otherworldly intensity through a collision of gritty physicality and […]

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