photo: Dirk Bleicker
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver?s mid-winter festival presenting acclaimed local, national and international artists. The 9th annual PuSh Festival takes place January 15 ? February 3, 2013 at venues in and around Vancouver and offers work from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Scotland, Taiwan and the United States.
The PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts with theatre, dance, music, and various forms of multimedia and hybrid performance. The 2013 Festival features more than 160 performances and events over 20 days with 18 Main Series shows, three full weeks of Club PuSh, the PuSh Assembly networking event, an Opening Gala, a Free Film Series, shows paired with Dine Out Vancouver restaurants and a number of artist talks and other ancillary events.
MAIN SHOWS INCLUDE
Atomic Vaudeville (Victoria, Canada)
Ride the Cyclone
Presented with the Arts Club Theatre Company
Jan 17?Feb 16, Arts Club Granville Island Stage. 7:30PM (Mon&Tue), 8PM (Wed-
Sat), Matinee Wed & Sat 2PM, No show Sun.
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. From $29 at
the Arts Club Theatre Company.
Stop the Violence (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Human Library
Presented with grunt gallery
Jan 18?20, 25?27, Feb 1?3. Vancouver Public Library?s Central Library, Level
three. 12?4PM.
Choose from titles like ?Drag Queen? and ?Refugee? and be connected with a human book for an enjoyable and informal conversation designed to challenge prejudice.
FREE. Supported by the Vancouver Public Library.
Mariano Pensotti (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Sometimes I think, I can see you
Presented with Contemporary Art Gallery, PTC and Vancouver Art Gallery
Jan 18?20, 25?27, Feb 1-3. Vancouver Public Library?s Central Library, Atrium + Vancouver Art Gallery, Lobby. 12?4PM.
Vancouver writers stationed in public spaces are equipped with laptops connected to projection screens, creating beautiful and spontaneous fictions about the world around
them that are displayed in real-time. FREE. Supported by the Vancouver Public Library.
Boca del Lupo (Vancouver, Canada)
Photog: An imaginary look at the uncompromising life of Thomas Smith
Presented with SFU Woodward?s
Jan 22?26, Studio T, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. 8PM, Matinee Jan 26 4PM.
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. $27-35
at Tickets Tonight.
Projet in situ (Lyon, France)
Do You See What I Mean?
Presented with Urban Crawl, sponsored by Terra Breads
Jan 25?27 & Feb 1?3, Access Gallery. Departures every 15 min from12?4:45PM.
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. (18+)
$31-39 at the PuSh Festival. Supported by the Consulate General of France in Vancouver, Institut fran?ais, The Roundhouse, Access Gallery and CNIB!(the Canadian National Institute for the Blind).
Music on Main (Vancouver, Canada)
Reich + Rite with pianist Vicky Chow
Presented with Music on Main
Jan 28?29, Heritage Hall. 8PM.
Renowned pianist Vicky Chow performs a tour de force programme with works by Steve
Reich, Igor Stravinsky and Louis Andriessen. $15-35 at Music on Main.
Tim Crouch (Brighton, England)
I, Malvolio
Presented with The Cultch
Jan 30?Feb 10, The Cultch. 8PM, Matinee Feb 10 2PM, No show Feb 4.
A hilarious and unsettling take on Twelfth Night through the eyes of Malvolio?one of
dramatic literature?s most maligned characters. From $17 at The Cultch.
Supported by the British Council.
Contemporary Legend Theater (Taipei, Taiwan)
King Lear
Presented with Asian Canadian Special Events Association
Feb 1?2, The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. 8PM.
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. Tickets
from $34 at Tickets Tonight.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture, R.O.C. (Taiwan), the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York and the Sandman Hotel Vancouver City Centre.
For the full show lineup, check out the PuSh Festival website.
photo: Will Hanke
THE FLEXIBLE PUSH PASS
The PuSh Pass is the best way to experience the PuSh Festival! 4 show and 6 show passes available. Purchase before 5pm on Thursday, December 6th for the early bird rate and save up to 30% off single tickets! For $99 ($115 after Dec 6), you get four flexible vouchers for any four PuSh shows, or pay only $142 ($170 after Dec 6) for a six-pack of vouchers.
New this year, all PuSh passholders get into Late Nights at Club PuSh and the Opening Gala absolutely FREE.
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
See show description for the ticket outlet associated with each show.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, visit pushfestival.ca or pick up a comprehensive 48-page program guide beginning November 12, 2012 at any location of JJ Bean, Festival Cinemas, Terra Breads or Choices Markets.
| We?re giving away a Pair of Tickets to King Lear on Friday, February 1st at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. All you have to do is post a comment below and we?ll randomly select a winner at noon on Monday, January 28th and notify the winner by email. |
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