PuSh Blog

Copper Promises – Hinemihi Haka

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE Solo dance artist Victoria Hunt uses movement, sound and image to tell a story. The themes are heritage, tradition and reclamation; the subject is Hinemihi, a ceremonial meeting house that […]

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Suddenly Slaughter

November 14, 2018

From PuSh Artists-in-Residence The Biting School comes this take on a major work of Iranian theatre. Abbas Nalbandian’s 1971 Suddenly, This God Lover Died in the Love of God, This God Slain Died by the […]

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Zvizdal (Chernobyl – so far so close)

November 13, 2018

Members of the Antwerp-based art collective BERLIN, together with journalist Cathy Blisson, spent five years filming Nadia and Pétro Opanassovitch Lubenoc, an elderly couple living deep within the irradiated Chernobyl exclusion zone in a place […]

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Loop, Lull

November 13, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE This hypnotic work begins with five dancers, each trapped in their own loop of motion and gesture. They change their movement in response to each other, while manipulating the space around […]

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PALMYRA

November 08, 2018

In this prizewinning piece, the set is almost bare and broken crockery is the main prop; PALMYRA may seem slight at first glance, but it’s about as rich in implication as one could ask for. The […]

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Kids

November 08, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE Liu Kuan-Hsiang goes for broke in this ecstatic tribute to his late mother; the dancer and choreographer clearly has a lot to get off his chest, and his catharsis is […]

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The Eternal Tides

November 21, 2017

The Eternal Tides

The Eternal Tides is a momentous occasion—an adventure in beauty unlike anything seen before on the PuSh stage. In her Canadian debut, choreographer Lin Lee-Chen folds age-old rituals, customs and ceremonial rites into her radical […]

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Foxconn Frequency (no. 3): For three visible Chinese performers

November 21, 2017

Foxconn Frequency (no. 3)

Wildly eccentric and marked by an infectious sense of play, this is a deconstructive take on piano pedagogy, manufacturing ethics, and the relationship between labour and sound. That’s right, this is not your average music […]

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