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#FridayFive: 5 shows not to miss at this year’s PuSh Festival

Now underway at venues across Vancouver, the 2023 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival runs until February 5. Here are five shows we think you should not miss.

Now underway at venues across Vancouver, the 2023 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival runs until February 5. Here are five shows we think you should not miss:

1Vancouver’s innovative Electric Company Theatre presents An Undeveloped Sound (Jan 30-Feb 4). Loosely inspired by Goethe’s Faust, it is about the eternal wager made between development and destruction.

An Undeveloped Sound
An Undeveloped Sound

2In A Percussionist’s Songbook (Jan 25-26), Joby Burgess performs his new album of “songs without words” inspired by sources as diverse as Saudi Arabian folklore and the prose of Michael Ondaatje.

A Percussionist’s Songbook

3 Regina-based New Dance Horizons presents This and the Last Caribou (Feb 2-4) with three works exploring humanity’s relationship with history and nature.

This and the Last Caribou

4In Are we not drawn onward to new erA (Feb 1-4), this palindromic take on the climate crisis uses structure as a metaphor, employing repetition and reversal to symbolize the need for a worldwide undoing of our actions.

Are we not drawn onward to new erA

5Speaking three languages, Émilie Monnet interprets a recurring dream and transmits a message of empowerment to the audience in Okinum (Feb 2-5), offered both in-person and online.

Okinum
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