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2022 PuSh Festival Curatorial Statement

November 24, 2021

PuSh has always been an accelerator, animating our imaginations and transforming our perspectives. The 2022 PuSh program is a timely catalyst, facilitating an emergence from our social hibernation with works that incept, evoke, activate, and […]

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The Fascinating Multimedia Solo Dance Performance that is Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka

January 22, 2019

By The Dance Centre Published on January 22, 2019 Australian dance artist Victoria Hunt’s powerful solo Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka continues our Global Dance Connections series January 31-February 2. Our Executive Director Mirna Zagar talks […]

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On the Canadian Premiere of Liu Kuan-Hsiang’s Kids – An interview with Mirna Zagar

January 15, 2019

By The Dance Centre Published on January 15, 2019 Taiwanese choreographer Liu Kuan-Hsiang brings his distinctive work to Vancouver as part of our Global Dance Connections series January 24–26. Our Executive Director Mirna Zagar talks […]

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Company 605 Premieres New Work: Loop, Lull

January 09, 2019

By The Dance Centre Published on January 8, 2019 Company 605 has a major Dance Centre residency this season which includes artistic dialogues and community-building initiatives as well as the premiere of a new work […]

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A Place of Listening and Responsiveness in Fragile Forms – A curatorial statement by Delia Brett

December 04, 2018

For a collaborative company like MACHiNENOiSY inspiration is something one arrives at through shared play and struggle. With Fragile Forms inspiration came very differently. At the end of 2015, after producing 7 shows in one […]

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Dancing Anywhere, Anytime—Cheryl Rossi on Dancing in Le Grand Continental

January 08, 2015

On January 24 and 25, the PuSh Festival is presenting an outdoor dance performance by Montreal-choreographer Sylvain Émard. But unlike most dance performances we’ve come to imagine, Le Grand Continental involves 70-or-so everyday Vancouverites of […]

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So Blue: Louise Lecavalier’s highly anticipated choreographic debut – A Curatorial Statement by DanceHouse Producer Jim Smith

January 06, 2015

Louise Lecavalier, So Blue, 2015 PuSh Festival

It was 1990 when I first met Louise Lecavalier. I was at the start of my career in dance with my first job in Montreal at La La La Human Steps. Louise’s image was the […]

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Gotta Dance!—Peter Dickinson on Dancing in Le Grand Continental

December 17, 2014

On January 24 and 25, the PuSh Festival is presenting an outdoor dance performance by Montreal-choreographer Sylvain Émard. But unlike most dance performances we’ve come to imagine, Le Grand Continental involves 70-or-so everyday Vancouverites of […]

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