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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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Giving Voice to History, Culture and Climate in Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools – A curatorial statement by Roy Surette

January 07, 2019

In the Inuktitut language, when a knife is dull, it is said to “have no face”. The word “Kiinalik” translates to mean the knife is sharp – or, “it has a face”.

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Curatorial Statement – Usually Beauty Fails

January 28, 2014

Curatorially speaking, Usually Beauty Fails captures the contemporary exploration of dance, theatre and music working side-by-side. With this show these disciplines intersect, collide, almost seemingly inside of one another. Most interestingly, how each art form provokes […]

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Curatorial Statement – Fiona Black on Antonio Zambujo

December 22, 2013

Fado is a style of music completely unique to Portugal. It has been described as the Portuguese form of the blues but that is selling it short. It has drama, tragedy, majesty, playfulness and sadness and even […]

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Curatorial Statement – Fiona Black on Krar Collective

December 22, 2013

Ethiopia is considered the cradle of civilization and the most ancient place of human existence on earth. It is an African country ravaged by famine, disease and much hardship as well as being characterized by its […]

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PuSh Pulse: Lindsay McMahon

August 19, 2008

We’re all arts lovers here at the PuSh Festival. Because, well, it’d be pretty silly to work for a performing arts festival if we didn’t deeply appreciate theatre or music or dance or all of […]

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PuSh Pulse: Emma Lancaster

August 12, 2008

We’re all arts lovers here at the PuSh Festival. Because, well, it’d be pretty silly to work for a performing arts festival if we didn’t deeply appreciate theatre or music or dance or all of […]

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PuSh Pulse: Josh Bowman

August 01, 2008

We’re all arts lovers here at the PuSh Festival. Because, well, it’d be pretty silly to work for a performing arts festival if we didn’t deeply appreciate theatre or music or dance or all of […]

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