PuSh Festival

🎉That’s a wrap on the 2024 PuSh Festival! Thank you for joining us. If you saw a show, watch your email for the chance to complete a PuSh Festival survey and win a trip for two to Victoria! 🗓️ We’ll be back next year: Jan 23–Feb 9, 2025! #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

🎧 On PuSh Play: Diana Lopez Soto on what aerial dance contributes to the dramaturgy of NOMADA, the artists’ involvement with sustainability, and how art is in conversation with ecology. Listen here: ow.ly/pecH50Qlj2v 📷: Greg Wong #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #Podcast #NOMADA

🎧 Back in January, Gabrielle Martin & Bruce Gladwin of @Back2BackTheatr discussed the complexities of speaking and being heard & societal change with regards to our assumptions about others. Listen here: ow.ly/76Hv50QliZk 📷: Jeff Busby #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #Podcast

🎧 Cherish Menzo on the “chopped and screwed” remix technique, the effect of time on the meaning of images, and the Black body in the context of post-humanism. Listen here: ow.ly/krzZ50QliY3 📷: Yaqine Hamazaoui & Yema Gieskes #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #Podcast #DARKMATTER

🎧 On this ep of PuSh Play, Naishi Wang & @jeanabreudance discuss how Deciphers tackles loneliness, the migrant experience and the transforming nature of human identity. Listen here: ow.ly/ptJq50Qjnjs 📷: Maya Yoncali #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #Podcast #Artscast #Deciphers

🎧 ICYMI: on PuSh Play, @GuyRgisJr2 and Gabrielle Martin discuss L'amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie (Love Like a Buried Cathedral). Listen here: ow.ly/uoEY50Qkqr4 📷: Christophe Péan #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #PerformingArts #Podcast #Artscast

Remembering our volunteer appreciation party back in February ☺️ 📷: Sun Woo Baik #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

🎧 On this PuSh Play episode: David Pay, AD of @musiconmain talks to @adamtendler about the story of Adam's strange inheritance, grief and mourning through numbness, and how Inheritances changed as the work evolved. #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #Podcast #Inheritances

Some spellbinding shots from @Conspiracy_Now’s Same Difference. 📷: Sarah Race Photography #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

🎧 Gabrielle Martin with Vanessa Goodman @actiondistance & Simona Deaconescu #tangajcollective on #BLOT, the body as microbiological being, how bacteria might shape our preferences—and more. Listen here: ow.ly/HGC350QgwC9 #LivePuSh #Podcast

The salt dunes from BLOT - Body Line of Thought (@ActionDistance & Tangaj Collective). 📷: Tricia Knowles #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

In the spotlight. Sound of the Beast @BelladonnaNHP/@beyondwallsTPM 📷: Sun Woo Baik #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

🎧 On PuSh Play: @SukeshRakesh talks about the philosophy of creating and moving through chaos, the particular challenge of solo work, and whether practice can be a source of healing. Listen here: pushfestival.ca/podcasts/ #LivePuSh #PuSh2024

A throwback to @NeworldTheatre's workshop with @Back2BackTheatr (The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes), where creators etc etc etc TKTKTK. 📷: Name here #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

At Ramanenjana co-choreographer Simona Deaconescu’s artist talk, she discussed the phenomenon of Ramenenjana, contextualizing its appearance in 1863 and 1869. 📷: Julian Legere #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

🎧 Project lead David Mesiha and dramaturg Gavan Cheema, co-artistic directors of @theatre.conspiracy discuss their show Same Difference on this episode of PuSh Play! Listen here: pushfestival.ca/podcasts/ #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #PerformingArts #Podcast #Artscast #samedifference

Moments from the Industry Series Talk “Creating, Knowing and Sharing” with Noël Habel, Program Officer at @CanadaCouncil! Presented with @talkingstickfst & @CanadaCouncil. 📷: Sarah Race Photography #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

Some sky-high snapshots from @TUCircus’s Aerial Performance Workshop with Inbal Ben Haim! 📷: Sarah Race Photography #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

Today, we’re reminiscing about our opening party back in January… 🪩🥲 Save the date for next year’s Festival—Jan 23–Feb 9, 2025! 📷: Tricia Knowles #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt

🎧 ICYMI: Basel Zaraa on Dear Laila, an interactive installation that uses objects to connect with audiences; how we use art to deal with trauma; and how we can show big events as experienced by normal people. Listen here: ow.ly/uJjK50Qebxx #LivePuSh #Podcast

From the Sound of the Beast talkback: "Before the show, I write names on my arm, I wash it off every night so that I have to do it again every show, and I am committed to speaking because of these names." — @BelladonnaNHP 📷: Tricia Knowles #LivePuSh #PuSh2024 #LiveArt