Vancouver: PuSh Festival
Experience works from Tania El Khoury, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, and more
When: January 21 — February 9, 2020
Where: Multiple venues across Lower Mainland, Vancouver
Price: Varies
Tags: #participatory, #festival, #interactive, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)
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Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival returns with three immersive performances:
Gardens Speak — Tania El Khoury (Lebanon/UK): In today’s Syria, oppression and violence are so far-reaching that even burial and mourning have become subversive acts. In this immersive sound installation, artist Tania El Khoury pays tribute to that subversion, and to 10 people whose lives have been lost in the regime’s brutal response to dissent. In groups of 10, audience members are led to a garden space marked by graves. At each grave, one person will hear a story — the reconstructed history of an individual killed in the conflict.
The Fever — 600 HIGHWAYMEN (USA): How much can we trust other people? How do we form our conceptions of them? What does it take for us to work together? The Fever takes issues like these and makes them the stuff of riveting theatre. It all begins with the character of Marianne, who has just held a party; from there, the performance builds into a study of community, caring and mutual reliance.
Monday Nights: Who you are on the court reveals who you are off the court; in this basketball-theatre mash-up, we invite you to lace up your sneakers and get in the game! Every Monday night for over a decade, five men came together to play basketball. Friendships were formed, bonds were strengthened; they shared each other’s victories and losses, triumphs and heartbreaks. Born from those games, Monday Nights is an interactive basketball/theatre experience where those same men explore how a simple game can help us understand ourselves and connect to community.
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Contact Level: Varies; see site for details.
Content Advisories: Varies; see site for details.
Some performances use flashing lights or scent.