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→ JAN "#$FEB %, &'"& INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL THEATRE ( DANCE ( MULTIMEDIA ( MUSIC Proud media sponsor for 2012 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Vancouver's leading arts source. STAY CONNECTED AT STRAIGHT.COM & CURATORIAL MESSAGE » Thank the cultural gods, then, for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, a beacon of avant-garde light in the dead of winter « The Globe and Mail D STORIES. WE ALL HAVE THEM TO TELL...AND WE ALL PuSh audiences will be thrilled with the return of TABLE OF CONTENTS SHARE THEM WITH THOSE AROUND US. Our stories can two Festival favourites. Argentinean born writer/ reveal a personal triumph, gut-wrenching decision, director Mariano Pensotti, who last year brought to !" misadventure, passionate love entanglement, loss of life the streets of Gastown with La Marea, brings his !# 1 a loved one, an injustice, relocation, or a milestone latest extravaganza El pasado es un animal grotesco. event. It's the stories of our domestic and public Tokyo's Toshiki Okada (Five Days in March, 2009) $! 4 memory that can bring clarity to our reality. returns with another insightful and wry take on $$ 8 contemporary life with Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, $% The last two years have held watershed moments and the Farewell Speech. $& for Vancouver. Having celebrated the 2010 Winter $' Olympics and the city’s 125th Anniversary in This year, PuSh shines a special spotlight on $( ; ; consecutive years, Vancouver's visibility and cultural contemporary Aboriginal performing arts. Highlights influence has exploded and made international are the hip hop performance collective Beat Nation $) headlines. Like any cosmopolitan city, Vancouver has Live, Toronto’s Native Earth Performing Arts with $* < on offer a remarkable cultural richness. For the past Almighty Voice and His Wife, and an acclaimed $" = > two years, our PuSh programming has paid tribute production from New Zealand entitled No.2. to this diversity by honouring our artists and our Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Michael Greyeyes $# own stories—the stories of Vancouverites, British will deliver a keynote manifesto to kick off the PuSh %% ? >@ Columbians and Canadians—through a multiplicity Assembly. %& A B of art forms, partnerships, community engaged events and new commissions. Each of our invited artists has a distinct vision %' 4 of the world. What stands out in these landmark %( For the 2012 program our desire was to expand our productions is their deeply personal sense of story, circle of storytellers and invite treasured artists and how they transform our experience of time and !( C from abroad into our thriving arts scene to share place—through social exchange, history, staged !* stories that capture their notions of place and images and the use of life’s daily occurrences. We %! belonging. We wanted to curate a program that hope our 2012 program brings home the intrinsic %$ embodied the spirit of inclusiveness and offered value of storytelling. A story acquires a certain %$ audiences a glimpse into the hearts and minds of permanence, a certain truth, and a certain sense the contemporary change-makers in our field from of authenticity when stamped into the cultural %) different corners of the globe. This year's program landscape. &$ gives us a portrait of the delicate social balance, the && inequity, and ultimately the humanity of our world. &( Some of the shows you will surely not want to miss &* include: Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué's Looking for a &" Missing Employee, Mexico's acclaimed Teatro Linea Norman Armour Sherrie Johnson &# ; ; de Sombra's Amarillo and New York artist Zachary Oberzan's Your brother. Remember? * - 56 * 6 * 6 ) PuSh it. (pull. stretch. flex.Granville bend. Island reach. build. raise.7.25˝ × 3.67˝ lift. grow) 2011 Winterruption Program Ad CMYK GRA11-029 Kipp No.3, PMN Caecillia, Trade Gothic GRA11-029_Push Fest_ September 21, 2011 2011 Winterruption Ad [email protected] With our smart, cloud-based business telephone system. cloudpbx telephonic Proudly supporting PuSh since 2008. % Quite simply, PuSh is about pushing artistic some might be afraid to cross and crossing it anyway. and in so doing, we not only have the opportunity to engage our audiences, but perhaps even enter into something together that expands our horizons. Ultimately, to be PuShed is to be moved, just Have a little bit more… to laughter, to tears, even to anger. but the result is a shared, transformative experience. it is what we believe the performing you been arts are here to do. and it is our greatest wish to cross that line together with you. Thank you to our sponsors and funders PuShed? who PuSh us, together, across that line. ' + PANTONE 282 PANTONE 485 PANTONE 423 WHITE phonic Black CMYK Pantone & A D D E D * choreography: Barak Marshall a Suzanne Dellal Dance Centre - Tel Aviv commission performed by the Los Angeles-based dance company Body Traffi c “Marshall’s work possesses a joie de vivre, an enchantment which pulls us into a magical world.” La Republique barakmarshall.com bodytraffi c.com photo by Don Lee, courtesy of Aazure Barton & Artists and the Banff Centre. photo by Don Lee, courtesy of Aazure Barton & Artists and the Banff Chapter 3: Collaboration Cherise Barton and Donald Sales in Aazure Barton’s World premieres by Aszure Barton Three Canadian premieres Donald Sales and Cherice Barton with choreography by NND Artistic Director Stephen Shropshire and Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat noordnederlandsedans.com Chutzpah! Chutzpah! Corporate Dance Presenting Gold Series Sponsor Sponsor Sponsors Media Dance + Series Sponsor THANK YOU PATRONS CIRCLE MEMBERS! The Patrons Circle is a group of individuals with vision, passion and generosity. YoU are the ones who generously breath life into the artistic landscape of this great city. because of your gifts, the PuSh Festival continues to grow and flourish each year. Thank you for this trail–blazing dedication to artistic expression and a transformative evening in the theatre. Art does not exist without Patrons. * Macdougall, Laurel March, Melody Mason, PATRONS CIRCLE Judy McFarlane, Lindsay McMahon, Laura ; * Moore, Helen & John O'Brian, Mindy Parfitt, MEMBERS ↓ Bobbi Parker, Tim Porteous, Geraldine Pratt, Leonard Schein, Betty Scheltgen, Minna Schendlinger, Michael Shamata, Kathryn SUSTAINING DONORS Shaw, Michael & Andy Skene, Erin Smith, PATRONS CIRCLE ↓ Diana Solomon, Joel & Dana Solomon, Dr. The Bing Thom Foundation For more information about the Patrons Barbara Stafford, Mauro Vescera, Jean Wilson, me&lewis ideas inc. Circle, contact Jocelyn Macdougall in the Rhodri Windsor & Suzanne Liscombe, Baldwin Development Department at 604.605.8284 Wong, Kathryn & Jim Woodward, Mirna Zagar 202 or [email protected]. You can CURATORS CIRCLE - ."'''/ 0 also learn more online at pushfestival.ca. Norman Armour, Peter Dickinson, Russ & Ellen FRIENDS - .&'1"%2 0 Cmolik, Marie-Claire Dy, Chris Dobrzanski, Jane Heyman, Lydia Marston-Blaauw & Anonymous (4), Christopher Adkins, Jeremy Christopher Hunt, The Organizational Culture Berkman, Sydney Bernard, Josh Bowman, 2012 PATRONS CIRCLE EVENTS ↓ Group, Leslie Nolin, Alyson Rimmer, Jennifer Olivia Brooke, Dr. Efstratios Caldis, Naomi Stanley, Fei & Milton Wong, Max Wyman Campbell, Katharine Carol, Eliana Castillo, Your brother. Remember? David Chariandy, Maureen Curtin, Alexander E F Daughtry, Gins Doolittle, Katrina Dunn, G ADVOCATES - .*''1222 0 IG Regina Eustace, Andrea Fecko, Alex Ferguson, Rob Armour, Roberta Beiser, Lorna Brown, ; Robin Ford, Jesse Garlick & Susan Elliott, Tim Carlson, Richard Cavell, Kori Chan, Robert Rory Gylander, Craig Hall, Timothy Hamilton, Supporters, Advocates and Curators Gardiner, Cheryl Geisler, Margo Harper, Stephen Heatley, Arlene Howard (Serra C ircle members are invited to an Peter Hinton, Sherrie Johnson, Alessandro exclusive reception prior to the grand Investments Corp.), David Hudgins, Linda Juliani & Meg Roe (Winkchop Productions), opening of Club PuSh. Enjoy an intimate Johnston, Lionel Johnston, Emily Larkman, gathering with the PuSh Festival’s Christopher Kantowicz, Sudha Krishna, Jo Ledingham, David Lee, James Long, Gloria curators, artists, board and staff, DD Kugler, Sylvia Lanz, Ronald Lauenstein, Loree, Becky Low, Tanya Marquardt, John followed by a performance of Your Anndraya Luui, Ken Manning, Ward & Linda brother. Remember? Members who & Mardie Mason, Jessica Massart, Michael McMahon, Alice Niwinski, Janet Rogers, Lainé register for the event will be given McGuire, Brenda McNicol, John & Marilyn Slater, Paul Whitney, Donna Wong-Juliani, a complimentary ticket to the show. McVicar, John Mendoza, Scott Michaels, The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Kevin Mooney, Kirsty Munro, Beverly Nann, El pasado es un animal grotesco Keith Nightingale, Paula & Dennis O'Brien, E J SUPPORTERS - ."*'1%220 Ellie O'Day, John Malcolm Page, Judi Pearl, G Anonymous (6), Sascha Armour, Mary & Herb Rebecca Pearson, Judith Penner, Cory Philley, > ; Auerbach, Leanne Averbach, MK Barclay, Susan Pond, Margaret Reynolds, Sylvia 6 Miriam Bennett, Rudy Carlson, Deena Roberts, Alexandra Royek, Daniel Sams, Mary Advocates and Curators Circle Members Chochinov & Eric Posen, Ethel Coffin, Judith Schendlinger, Karen Shuster, Mike Stack, are invited to attend an exclusive