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Dec 30, 2025

Gabrielle Martin chats with James Gnam and Natalie LeFebvre Gnam of Plastic Orchid Factory about Catching Up to the Future of Our Past, coming up at the 2026 PuSh Festival: January 30 and 31 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in Vancouver, BC.

Show Notes

Gabrielle and Renae discuss: 

  • The ways in which interdisciplinary...


Dec 26, 2025

Gabrielle Martin chats with Renae Shadler about SKIN, coming up at the 2026 PuSh Festival: February 4-6 at the Annex in Vancouver, BC.

Show Notes

Gabrielle and Renae discuss: 

  • How did this project first begin?
  • What did you discover about your own assumptions and movement in this process?
  • How did the presence...


Dec 23, 2025

Gabrielle Martin chats with Bilal Alkhatib about Khalil Khalil, coming up at the 2026 PuSh Festival: January 23-25 at the Nest in Vancouver, BC.

Show Notes

Gabrielle and Bilal discuss: 

  • How did you translate the story into movement and performance?
  • How did the project start, as your first theatre project coming from...


Dec 19, 2025

Gabrielle Martin chats with Justine A. Chambers about The Brutal Joy, coming up at the 2026 PuSh Festival!

Show Notes

Gabrielle and Justine discuss: 

  • How did you develop this work? What is the significance of and approach to the presentation of the black body?
  • How is this work an anticolonial imagining?
  • What kinds of...


Dec 16, 2025

Gabrielle Martin chats with Tyson Houseman about askîwan ᐊᐢᑮᐊᐧᐣ, coming up at the 2026 PuSh Festival!

Show Notes

Gabrielle and Tyson discuss: 

  • Where does askîwan sit in your recent work?
  • How does bringing in live image-making evolve your experimentation with form?
  • What made you start working in film after...