PuSh Festival picks for the week of January 18 to 25

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      Here are a few of our top choices for your PuSh International Performing Arts Festival viewing this week:

      By Heart

      (At Performance Works from Thursday to Saturday [January 19 to 21])

      Portuguese artist Tiago Rodrigues’s piece will only begin when audience members fill the 10 chairs he’s set up on-stage. From there, he teaches them a poem, while sharing stories about his family and about writing. Le Figaro called the piece “profoundly moving”.

       

      Four Thousand Holes

      (At the Fox Cabaret on Monday and Tuesday [January 23 and 24])

      Pianist Vicky Chow and percussionist Ben Reimer (shown here) apply their mind-blowing skills to work by three contemporary composers at Music on Main—most notably Nicole Lizée’s new ode to Prince and the Minneapolis sound.

      Portraits in Motion

      (At the York Theatre from Tuesday to Thursday [January 24 to 26])

      Photographer Volker Gerling takes the simple flipbook and projects it, creating fleeting moments of fine art. Small revelations in his luminescent black-and-white portraits take on almost magical scale.

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