PuSh Play

Oct 29 2024 35 ep. 29 mins 7

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PuSh Play is a PuSh Festival podcast. Each episode features conversations with artists who are pushing boundaries and playing with form.

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Ep. 35 - Staging Solitude (2021-22)

Oct 29 2024 30 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with composer Njo Kong Kie. Show Notes Gabrielle and Njo Kong Kie discuss: How did your relationship with PuSh start? What was the process of presenting work at PuSh? How do you interpret and react to the source material? How did you pivot to digital work during Covid? How does the work transition back to the live stage? How has your artistic pra

Ep. 34 - Exchange (2020)

Oct 22 2024 18 mins

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, the audio quality for this episode is not at the usual standard for PuSh Play. Gabrielle Martin chats with Fay Nass, Artistic and Executive Director of the frank theatre and Artistic Director of Aphotic Theatre. Show Notes Gabrielle and Fay discuss: How did your relationship with PuSh start? How do we explore the relationship between form a

Ep. 33 - Impulse and Iteration (2019)

Oct 15 2024 27 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with Miriam Fernandes, co-artistic director of Toronto’s why not theatre. Show Notes Gabrielle and Miriam discuss: What was the process of creating Prince Hamlet and bringing it to Vancouver? What does it mean to create work with and for those hard of hearing? How do you take a huge show that isn’t built to tour on tour? How did your relationship

Ep. 32 - Find Your Place and Transcend It (2018)

Oct 08 2024 30 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with performance artist Ralph Escamillan. Show Notes Gabrielle and Ralph discuss: How did you come to know about PuSh and get a commission for Hinky Punk? How do you elevate the performer into the visually iconic? What is Hinky Punk? How do you embody aspects of queerness in one performer? How do you work with restriction? What role can costume p

Ep. 31 - Turning Point (2017)

Oct 01 2024 21 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with Owen Underhill, Artistic Director of Turning Point Ensemble. Show Notes Gabrielle and Owen discuss: How did your relationship with PuSh begin? Why was interdisciplinary work important? What was Norman Armour’s role in the early stages of Turning Point Ensemble? How did the company evolve in terms of process, practice, points of interest and pr

Ep. 30 - Game Changer (2016)

Sep 24 2024 22 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with Dana Gingras of Animals of Distinction. Show Notes Gabrielle and Dana discuss: How did the relationship with PuSh start and develop? The personal meaning of Dana Gingras’s work for Gabrielle How was “Monumental” a culmination of previous work? What does it mean to have a performing band’s live energy in rehearsals? How did these collab

Ep. 29 - Dancing in the Rain (2015)

Sep 17 2024 24 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with Sylvain Émard of Sylvain Émard Danse. Show Notes Gabrielle and Sylvain discuss: How did your relationship with PuSh begin? What was the impact and legacy of the show, Le Grand Continental? How do you organize and prepare for a truly large project like Le Grand Continental? How does line dancing fit into the origins and creation of the show?

Ep. 28 - Arriving while Happening (2014)

Sep 10 2024 27 mins

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, the audio quality for this episode is not at the usual standard for PuSh Play. Gabrielle Martin chats with Josh Martin, Artistic Co-Director of Company 605. Show Notes Gabrielle and Josh discuss: Collision between separate people, bodies and ideas How did the relationship with PuSh begin? What does it mean to be in the middle zone between

Ep. 27 - Collaboration over Competition (2013)

Sep 03 2024 30 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with Vancouver-based playwright, artistic director and author Marcus Youssef. Show Notes Gabrielle and Marcus discuss: Questions of difference, belonging and dissent Dismantling systems of oppression Crime and Punishment in 2005 How did your relationship with PuSh start? How to bring vastly different perspectives, styles, forms, organizations, comm

Ep. 26 - Local is International (2012)

Aug 29 2024 19 mins

Gabrielle Martin chats with Canadian singer-songwriter and longtime PuSh collaborator, Veda Hille. Show Notes Gabrielle and Veda discuss: How did the relationship with PuSh begin in 2007? How did Theatre Replacement and Neworld help with this introduction? How does a company become a true ensemble over time? How did Twenty Minute Musicals come to be? How to be a theatre