Co.ERASGA
Eternal Gestures
Thursday-Friday October 9-10, 2025 | 8pm

A visionary world premiere from Co.ERASGA, Eternal Gestures is a trilogy of evocative solo works commissioned from Indigenous Coast Salish-based choreographers Starr Muranko, Michelle Olson and Margaret Grenier, and performed by Artistic Director Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

This poetic work uplifts the voices of Indigenous women, asserts our deep connection to the land, and speaks to truth, healing, and the decolonization of art. Tolentino’s captivating performance becomes both a spiritual journey and a vessel for knowledge-sharing. This milestone production celebrates Co.ERASGA’s 25^th anniversary and reaffirms the company’s fierce commitment to cross-cultural, experimental dance which explores identity, ancestry, and the environment.

Duration: 50 minutes
Artist talkback October 10
Presented through the Artist-in-Residence program

Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman
WAIL
Monday-Tuesday January 26-27, 2026 | 8pm

WAIL is crafted as a poem for our present moment, weaving generative sound and movement together to capture the essence of shared experience in a time marked by dissonance. Delving into the intricate dance of navigating joy within community, six dance artists create a living score, intertwining physical and sonic compositions. The work draws inspiration from botanical distortions and auditory illusions to forge a sense of intimacy between humanity and the natural world, ultimately celebrating resilience in the face of chaos.

This transformative and timely world premiere sees Vanessa Goodman, an award-winning West Coast choreographer who tours internationally, continue to probe the interconnectedness of bodies, technology and ecosystems.

Duration: 60 minutes
Artist talkback January 27

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James Gnam/Plastic Orchid Factory
Catching Up to the Future of Our Past
Friday January 30, 2026 | 8pm
Saturday January 31, 2026 | 4pm

Plastic Orchid Factory’s newest work is a duet for Natalie LeFebvre Gnam and James Gnam that maps the living and shifting territory between memory and possibility. Placing their bodies at the centre of this live cartography, they mark time as both measurable and immeasurable – and articulate midlife not as a static checkpoint, but as a fluid intersection of past and future selves. By exploring the minutiae of their own lived and imagined trajectories, Natalie and James ask audiences to witness not only the passage of time, but its elastic potential: to see how memory propels us into possibility, and how possibility, in turn, reshapes the way we remember.

Scotiabank Dance Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Advisory: Includes haze

Single tickets go on sale in November at pushfestival.ca

Justine A. Chambers
The Brutal Joy
Thursday-Friday February 5-6, 2026 | 8pm

The Brutal Joy unfurls Black line dancing and sartorial expression as intellectual discourse, reverie, and devotion to Black-living. Created by the acclaimed Vancouver-based choreographer Justine A. Chambers, the work is rooted in her childhood memories and is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage. It centers dance and fashion as living counter-archives, and considers how movement and personal style are tools for self-determination and the reclamation of Black humanitarian value.

A dazzling scored improvisation for dance, lighting, and sound, The Brutal Joy draws from the Electric Slide and Black dandyism as embodied knowledge sources for self-actualization in the present through a dance of future possibilities.

Duration: 45 minutes
Artist talkback February 6
Justine A. Chambers is Associate Artist with The Dance Centre
Includes flashing lights and haze

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Ame Henderson + Matija Ferlin
Show Gone
Thursday-Friday March 13-14, 2026 | 7pm

Collaborating across borders and disciplines, Canadian choreographer Ame Henderson and Croatian director Matija Ferlin are known for their playfully rigorous conceptual performances. In this new duet, they play with light and darkness to explore the felt experience of endings – political, social and personal ones. The “snap to black” and the revealed tableaux that follow become a motif exposing the impossibility of controlling the narrative. From endless endings gradually emerges the feeling of a beginning.

Single tickets go on sale in December at vidf.ca
Post show talkback March 14.

Corporeal Imago
Drift
Thursday-Saturday May 21-23, 2026 | 8pm

Choreographers Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes unveil a striking world premiere in which the human form recedes into a scarred and shifting landscape. Drift unfolds through suspended bodies, cosmic noise, and immersive atmospheric effects, conjuring the silent reign of ancestral whispers, unseen life, and planetary rhythms. With this latest work, the award-winning co-directors push the boundaries of physical and visual performance, imagining an altered ecology where movement becomes a quiet meditation on transformation.

Presented through the Artist-in-Residence program
Duration: 50 minutes
Includes haze and smoke
Post show talkback May 22.

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FakeKnot
MY HOUSE
Friday-Saturday June 19-20, 2026 | 8pm

MY HOUSE is a bold new work by the award-winning queer, Canadian-Filipinx choreographer Ralph Escamillan (aka Kiki Legend OA Mother Posh Gvasalia and Canadian Mother Posh Basquiat). This fabulous performance celebrates Ballroom Culture, and the familial bonds embedded within the structure of a HOUSE. Bringing the BALL from the runway to the stage, the piece features Voguers from the Canadian Scene, with local Ballroom Commentators and DJs. Subversive, joyful, and playful, MY HOUSE uses the motif of trompe l’oeil to build fantasy, beats that make you pump, and movement that carries the liberating truth of being fully oneself on the floor.

Ralph Escamillan is Associate Artist with The Dance Centre
Artist talkback June 20.

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Photos: Co.ERASGA/Yasuhiro Okada; Action at a Distance/David Cooper; FakeKnot/Joe Bulawan; Justine A. Chambers/Rachel Topham Photography; Corporeal Imago/Chris Randle