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PuSh Festival forges ahead with partner presentations including ancient forest experience

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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival | January 28 – February 20, 2021 | Online and Performance Works

It’s been a challenging year for the PuSh Festival as it grapples with organizational and leadership changes in the midst of a pandemic. But as one of Vancouver’s diverse, interdisciplinary winter arts staples, the festival is forging ahead this year with a reduced program focused on partner presentations.

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Proximity feels far away on screen

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Proximity | Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY | The Dance Centre, presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival | streaming online | February 25 – March 11, 2021

Watching dance on screen is a very different experience from watching it in person in a theatre. A recording of a performance on stage has to overcome that barrier of the screen mediating the experience, but a dance film that has been designed for the medium doesn’t struggle in the same way.

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Crystal Pite connects body and soul at the Paris Opera Ballet

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Body and Soul | Crystal Pite for the Paris Opera Ballet | Digidance | Streaming online only in Canada | February 17 – 23, 2021

What happens when you take a series of stage directions and expand their meaning, interpret them in different ways, and translate that meaning into movement? In Body and Soul, Crystal Pite does just that, expanding meaning through movement and exploring the connection between words and movement as much as between bodies and souls.

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One at a time: Turning Point Ensemble premieres short films featuring musicians performing in isolation

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1+1+1 | Turning Point Ensemble | Online premiere | January 23, 2021

The Turning Point Ensemble’s 1+1+1 film project grew out of their desire to create unique new musical works in our COVID context, and it has provided an opportunity for the TPE musicians to forge new collaborations with composers, dancers, filmmakers, and visual artists. The series will include 15 short films — the first three, all directed by Sean Patrick Shaul, premiered online before a live talkback with the artists, and the next film will be shot in early February, with more details on further film screenings to come.

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Imagine Van Gogh is an immersive, dream-like world

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Imagine Van Gogh | Vancouver Convention Centre | March 19 – August 29, 2021

Aside from putting on VR goggles and entering a virtual world, this is the closest you’ll get to feeling like you’re inside a Van Gogh painting. Surrounded by towering screens, the walls and floor completely covered in Van Gogh’s works, this exhibition is a dreamy environment where time seems to slow down.

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