PuSh Blog

FOLK-S, Will you still love me tomorrow?

September 29, 2016

FOLK-S, Alessandro Sciarroni, 2017 PuSh Festival

Choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni takes a traditional dance form and works it for all it’s worth. It’s a sheer physical feat of performance. The schuhplattler (“shoebeater”) is a Bavarian folk dance where its performers slap their […]

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Wallflower

September 29, 2016

Wallflower, Quarantine, 2017 PuSh Festival

In Wallflower the performers endeavour to remember every dance they’ve ever danced. Quarantine gives us a show that will get your head bopping and will evoke some strong memories: of awkward high school dances, of […]

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Mouthpiece

September 29, 2016

Mouthpiece, Quote Unquote Collective, 2017 PuSh Festival

In this beguiling and provocative show, co-creators Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava (Quote Unquote Collective) play two halves of the same woman. Together they sit in a bathtub, singing and speaking in unison. The woman […]

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Sculptress: The Music of Nicole Lizée

September 29, 2016

Scultpress, Standing Wave Ensemble, 2017 PuSh Festival

For over 24 years, Vancouver music ensemble Standing Wave has been wowing audiences and gaining critical plaudits for their work. Here they present an evening of collaboration with composer and video artist Nicole Lizée. The […]

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Backstage in Biscuit Land

September 29, 2016

Backstage in Biscuit Land, Touretteshero, 2017 PuSh Festival

Biscuit, biscuit, biscuit—Jess Thom just can’t stop saying the word. As a woman with Tourette syndrome, she has verbal and physical tics that make her incapable of staying on script, but that hasn’t stopped her […]

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Zappa Meets Varèse & Oswald: The Present Day Composer Refuses to Die

September 29, 2016

Zappa Meets Varese & Oswald, Turning Point Ensemble, 2017 PuSh Festival

We know Frank Zappa as a daring innovator, synonymous with audacity, virtuosity and crazy inventiveness. But as a youth he cut his teeth on Edgard Varèse, one of the twentieth century’s great composers. In this […]

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Concord Floral

September 29, 2016

Concord Floral, Brubacher/Spooner/Tannahill, 2017 PuSh Festival

Drawing on Boccaccio’s The Decameron for a cast of teenagers, playwright Jordan Tannahill has painted an evocative, foreboding setting: a million-square-foot abandoned greenhouse where neighbourhood kids like to hang out. In this place of both […]

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Portraits in Motion

September 29, 2016

Portraits in Motion, Volker Gerling, 2017 PuSh Festival

The flipbook is now a curio to most of us, but for Volker Gerling it’s something much more profound: a mode of moving image that captures the human presence in stillness as much as motion. […]

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