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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival January 15 - February 3, 2013
Over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking local, national and international work in the live performing arts-theatre, dance, music, and multimedia performance.
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A Crack in Everything Jan 15-16 Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts This surreal and visually arresting multi-media work explores the enduring questions of justice posed in the Greek tragedy The Oresteia. Presented with Simon Fraser Community Presentation Society. MORE INFO BUY NOW
Ride the Cyclone Jan 17-Feb 16 Arts Club Granville Island Stage A high school chamber choir that perishes in a freak roller-coaster accident sings about their thwarted dreams in an outrageous and darkly hilarious ‘final concert.' Presented with the Arts Club Theatre Company MORE INFO Tickets Tonight sells tickets to Arts Club shows in person only
Cédric Andrieux Jan 18-20 Scotiabank Dance Centre A beautifully spare and poetic evening of dance and autobiographical story telling created in collaboration with, and performed by, French dancer Cédric Andrieux. Presented with The Dance Centre MORE INFO BUY NOW
Cinema Musica Jan 20 Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts A spirited conversation between live music and film, featuring the work of Stan Douglas, Arnold Schoenberg, François Houle, Judy Radul and more. Presented with Turning Point Ensemble and SFU Woodward's MORE INFO
Ana Sokolovic's Svadba/Wedding Jan 21-22 Heritage Hall A concert presentation of Belgrade-born, Montreal-based Ana Sokolovic's stunning and intoxicating a capella opera for six female voices. Presented with Music on Main MORE INFO BUY NOW
Photog: An imaginary look at the uncompromising life of Thomas Smith Jan 22-26 Studio T, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts The lives and struggles of war photographers are chronicled through the use of video, physical theatre and verbatim text from interviews with real world professionals. Presented with SFU Woodward's MORE INFO BUY NOW
Encore Jan 24-26 Queen Elizabeth Theatre A revival of three eminent works from the Ballet BC repertoire by choreographers William Forsythe, Jorman Elo and Medhi Walerski. Presented with Ballet BC MORE INFO Tickets Tonight sells Ballet BC tickets in person only via ticketmaster.
Testament Jan 24-26 Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Shakespeare's King Lear inspires a contemporary reflection on the modern realities of aging and parenthood with actors sharing the stage with their real-life fathers. In German with English surtitles. Presented with SFU Woodward's MORE INFO BUY NOW
Haptic + Holistic Strata Jan 25-27 Scotiabank Dance Centre One of Japan's most exciting multidisciplinary artists brings together light, sound and movement with astonishing force and style.
Presented with The Dance Centre MORE INFO BUY NOW
Do You See What I Mean? Jan 25-27 & Feb 1-3 Access Gallery This two-and-a-half hour blindfolded tour of the streets, storefronts and secret spaces of our city offers participants a deeply transformative experience of the everyday. Presented by Terra Breads, with Urban Crawl MORE INFO
Reich + Rite with pianist Vicky Chow Jan 28-29 Heritage Hall Renowned pianist Vicky Chow performs a tour de force programme with works by Steve Reich, Igor Stravinsky and Louis Andriessen. Presented with Music on Main MORE INFO BUY NOW
Still Standing You Jan 29-30 & Feb 1-2 Scotiabank Dance Centre An incendiary Belgian-Portuguese duo tests the limits of friendship, rivalry and their own bodies in a rough-and-tumble montage of dance, gymnastics and wrestling. Presented with The Dance Centre MORE INFO BUY NOW
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
Jan 29-Feb 2
The Wise Hall Told entirely in rhyming couplets, this devilish evening of supernatural storytelling is inspired by the Border Ballads, Robert Burns and the poems of Robert Service. Presented with The Cultch MORE INFO Tickets Tonight sells ticket for select Cultch performances, in person only
I, Malvolio Jan 30-Feb 10 The Cultch A hilarious and unsettling take on Twelfth Night through the eyes of Malvolio-one of dramatic literature's most maligned characters. Presented with The Cultch MORE INFO Tickets Tonight sells ticket for select Cultch performances, in person only
Winners and Losers Jan 30-Feb 2 Studio T, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Marcus Youssef and James Long embrace the ruthless logic and inevitable consequences of capitalism as they debate what it means to be a 'winner' or a 'loser.' Presented with SFU Woodward's MORE INFO BUY NOW
King Lear Feb 1-2 The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts Acclaimed the world over, this athletic and virtuosic one-man King Lear is performed by Wu Hsing-Kuo in the style of Peking Opera. In Mandarin with English surtitles. Presented with Asian Canadian Special Events Association MORE INFO BUY NOW
The Edge Project: Good to Go Jan 17-19 The Roundhouse An original take on the Hero's Journey created, designed, written and performed by over 75 high school students. Presented with Green Thumb Theatre MORE INFO
Qualia Jan 31-Feb 2 Progress Lab 1422 The first graduating class of the newly inaugurated BPA program asks what it means to experience reality in Qualia-a private experience in a public place. Presented with Capilano University, Douglas College, Langara and Vancouver Community College MORE INFO BUY NOW
David Carr: Truth and Lies in Life and Art
Feb 3
North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University A lecture with the ever-fascinating David Carr-New York Times columnist, author of The Night of the Gun, and featured interviewee in the documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. Presented with the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University MORE INFO
CLUB PUSH Presented with Theatre Conspiracy January 16-February 2, Thurs-Sun. 19+
Performance Works on Granville Island Club PuSh is a dynamic space that is all about experimentation-cutting-edge performance suited for a less traditional, more informal venue. It's also the social hub of the Festival and the best place to grab a drink, hang out with other festival goers and brush shoulders with PuSh Festival artists. BUY NOW
The God that Comes: with Hawksley Workman January 16 - 18 A cabaret-rock-&-roll hybrid show that tells the story of a king whose subjects revolt against his oppressive rule to worship the Greco-Roman god of wine. MORE INFO
Herald Nix, Proud Animal & Twin River
January 19
Herald Nixintroduces you to his demons down at the crossroads where country noir rocks with the glassy-eyed blues in the all-music night at Club PuSh. MORE INFO
Stood January 20 Jan Derbyshire's comedic insights into the politics of parents and sexual identity. MORE INFO
Look Mummy, I'm Dancing
January 23-25 Belgium theatre artist Vanessa Van Durme's hilarious and touching true story as one of the pioneering transsexuals of her time. MORE INFO
Winnipeg Babysitter January 26 Part documentary and part performance project, Daniel Barrow brings to light the outrageous and shameless personalities of public access television in Winnipeg. MORE INFO
Ryeberg Live January 27 Join authors Kevin Chong, Steven Galloway, Caroline Adderson and theatre artist Maiko Bae Yamamoto as they each present and appraise their own curated galleries of YouTube videos that inspire them. MORE INFO
Northern Soul, 30 Cecil Street & A Western January 30-31 An evening of new works by UK artists Victoria Melody, Dan Canham, Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse. Ticket price includes all three shows. MORE INFO
The Road Forward
February 1 A multi-media musical created and directed by Marie Clements of Red Diva Projects. MORE INFO
sad sack, by night
February 2 An evening dedicated to the expression of West Coast melancholy curated by Vancouver-based artist Vanessa Kwan. MORE INFO
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