PuSh Festival's final week closes with PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s 15th Anniversary Series

Copresentation of DARKMATTER and L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie celebrates milestone for SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs

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DARKMATTER. Photo by Yaqine Hamzaoui, Yema Gieskes, and Anneleen Hermans

In celebration of 15 years of collaboration between the SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs and PuSh, they are presenting the PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s 15th Anniversary Series. Two shows, DARKMATTER and L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie, will take place at the Fei And Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Moving with otherworldly intensity through a collision of gritty physicality and supernatural possibility, Cherish Menzo invents a movement language that reimagines the biased way we look at bodies and the stories we attribute to them in DARKMATTER. Playing January 29 to 31 during the final week of the 2024 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, this piece transcends dimension and form to expand visions of the possible.

The second show in the series, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie, will conclude this year’s PuSh Festival on February 3 and 4. With staggering subtlety and lyricism, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie tells the story of exiled Haitian families through opera-theatre. Born into such a family, author and director Guy Régis Jr. uses a chorus to sing of the tumultuous, uprooted nature of migration—the journey and the aftermath—in Creole and French, accompanied by Haitian classical guitarist Amos Coulanges.

L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie. Photo by Christophe Péan

This is a profound work, poetic and political. An interrogation of migration, human rights, social injustice, and discrimination, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie is an ode to all those in search of a promised land.

To date, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs and the PuSh Festival have copresented over 50 additional shows, Industry Series events, and artist talkbacks. Many are indelibly etched into the memories of audience members, like Theatre PAP’s The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi (2014), Ilbijerri Theatre’s Jack Charles V the Crown (2016), Turning Point Ensemble’s Zappa meets Varese & Oswald (2017), and 2b Theatre’s Old Stock: A Refugee Story (2022).

The two organizations’ unique relationship extends beyond the realm of copresenting, into artistic innovation and creating learning opportunities with SFU’s School for Contemporary Arts.

Don’t miss the PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s 15th Anniversary Series during this year’s festival. See both DARKMATTER and L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie to save 15 percent on tickets.

Post sponsored by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.