PuSh delivers contemporary works of theatre, dance, music and multimedia by local, national, and international artists. Featuring 13 works from three countries — including two world premieres and two Canadian premieres — the festival line-up is dedicated to creative risk-taking and dynamic interdisciplinary collaboration. With an emphasis on artists from across Canada this year, PuSh will also present works from the...

An award-winning choreographer and multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, Mélanie Demers dives into the political and the poetic with works which aim to fuse dance, theatre, literature and music with explosive effect. La Goddam Voie Lactée is her response to the harshness of the world: a pagan mass, both celebration and challenge, inspired by the constant mourning that marks our current age....

Designed to allow participants to familiarize themselves with the work of Montreal’s Mélanie Demers, this workshop seeks to be an immersion in the MAYDAY universe. Its aim is to provide tools to explore the questions and intuitions that permeate the company’s repertoire, retracing the path that leads from the quivering of an idea to the deployment of a reality. Body work, heart work, voice...

PuSh is Vancouver’s mid-winter cultural event, taking place each January/February in theatres and venues across the city. The 18-day festival presents a program that aims to be emotionally honest and politically daring, with dance, music, theatre, multimedia and circus performances. Featuring 20 original works from twelve countries, the festival line-up is dedicated to risk-taking and dynamic interdisciplinary collaboration. The 2023 PuSh Festival...

Echoing the hashtag #Never21 coined by the Black Lives Matter movement, Never Twenty One pays tribute to the young Black men who have been victims of gun violence in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg – and will never reach the age of 21. Three dancers – their torsos inscribed with testimonials from the victims’ families – recount the stories of...

For two decades PuSh Festival has been the Lower Mainland’s mid-winter cultural event delivering contemporary works of live art by acclaimed local, national and international artists.  Featuring seventeen original works from fifteen countries, including four world premieres and seven Canadian debuts, the festival line-up is dedicated to interdisciplinary collaborations. Dance/circus/multimedia companies/artists being presented for PuSh 2024 include Cherish Menzo/GRIP & Frascati Producties (Belgium/The...