PuSh International Performing Arts Festival announces 20th edition with genre-spanning lineup


Among this year’s multimedia offerings is All That Remains, an environmentally driven melding of dance, installation, and sound performance from the mind of Italian-born, Denmark-based choreographer Mirko Guido taking place at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. There’s also the world premiere of Inner Sublimity from Chimerik 似不像, which intersects Eastern and Western philosophy through dance and projections at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The History of Korean Western Theatre marks the return of South Korean artist Jaha Koo to the PuSh Festival; his documentary-theatre examination of cultural suppression, produced with Belgium’s CAMPO arts centre, is the third in a trilogy that includes earlier PuSh audience hits Lolling and Rolling and Cuckoo (the latter a performance with a rice cooker).

Over at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Petrikor Danse’s Habitat is a bioluminescence-infused solo about a search for home by Uruguay-born, Montreal-based choreographer Bettina Szabo, presented with Inner Fish Theatre Society and Latincouver.

Elsewhere, Gabriel Dharmoo stages Bijuriya at the Annex, the work examining the intersections between queerness and brownness in a copresentation by Music on Main and the Indian Summer Festival. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre, A Wake of Vultures presents SEEING DOUBLE, a theatrical homage to eerie late-night double features with psychological sound-and-image blitz Walking at Night by Myself and cyberpunk odyssey K BODY AND MIND.


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