Left of PuSh Festival (Trail Mix + For on the Floor)
Thu 30 Jan 2025 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST
Left of Main, V6A 2T9
Description
Left of PuSh Festival
DOUBLE BILL
Trail Mix (Oh Augustine) + For on the Floor (Jammin' Cameron)
🗓️ JANUARY 30 at 4:30 PM PST
📍 Left of Main (211 Keefer St, Historic Chinatown, 2nd Floor)
💭 Tickets are on a sliding scale. Please pay what you can.
💭 Refreshments available. Tap only please.
💭 Seating/door sales are available upon capacity. Advanced reservation is highly recommended.
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Trail Mix
Trail Mix is a work in progress that is influenced by the desire to heal our inner child while using train tracks to explore transitions, and ways to transport and transform. Building, rebuilding, deconstructing, and repeating. Following pathways that are laid out for us, and being redirected by new pathways, causing interruptions and turbulence. Exploring the confines of structure in both the tracks and our bodies, and finding fluidity, adaptability, and change within it. Through exploring what it means to embody a “train” body and a “track” body, we will become our own trains and tracks on our own journeys built for nobody but ourselves. By breaking societal and gender constructs, we break free from the track that somebody else has built for us.
Oh Augustine
Oh Augustine (they/them) is an emerging contemporary dance artist based on the unceded lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, and səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations. They trained with Modus Operandi for four years, completing their post secondary contemporary dance education. Oh has had the opportunity to partake in rehearsals with Chimerik 似不像 Collective, Okam's Racer, Co.ERASGA, danielle Mackenzie Long and Zahra Shahab, and performed in the EDAM Choreographic Series. Their work focuses on neurodivergence, gender exploration, spirituality, and sensation. Their work has been showcased in 12 Minutes Max, Boombox, Chalk It Up!, and Studio Salon Series. Currently, Oh has been working as a choreographer in an original play “Tomboy” written by Anais West.
@oh__augustine
For on the Floor
For on the Floor is an immersive dance/theatre experience that centres the transfer of memory and experience through the transformative properties of vintage clothing both inanimate or...otherwise. Spectator/performer lines are blurred as audience and cast alike embark on their own transformations navigating the cartoonish and the corporeal.
Jammin' Cameron
Throughout his 15 year artistic practice, Josh Cameron (he/him) has primarily focused on researching and developing in Street, Club and Cultural Dance with emphasis on Breaking, Hip Hop, and House.He has a deep and long standing practice of immersing himself in the complex and diverse facets of cultural gatherings including but not limited to battles, clubbing, Ballroom events, and traditional knowledge transfer from Pioneers and Innovators worldwide. Josh’s unique approach to dance stems from his synthesis of Street Dance foundations with extensive training in Martial
Arts as well as a wide variety of Contemporary and experimental movement modalities.
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Image courtesy of the artists
Presented by plastic orchid factory
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Please note Left of Main is an inclusive, scent-reduced space. No animals, with the exception of guide dogs, are permitted. The space is regretfully only accessible by stairs. Please get in touch at plasticorchid@me.com if you require assistance.
We look forward to welcoming you to the show! :)
plastic orchid factory and Left of Main are located in the heart of Historic Chinatown on the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. As artists who live, work and play on these lands, we strive to be allied with, learn from and acknowledge the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Location
Left of Main, V6A 2T9