COVID-19 has forced PUSH Physical Theatre to pivot on how it presents its art. Now the innovative dance company gears up for its virtual performance at the 2020 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival.
Darren Stevenson
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Kathy reviews ‘Lost in the Shuffle,’ ‘Fairy Tale Ending,’ PUSH Physical Theatre & ‘Elemental Guardians’
One of the most respected hoofers in the Rochester area, Cheryl Johnson, is putting her entire tapping career on display at the Lyric Theatre at this year’s Fringe Festival with her show “Lost in the Shuffle.” And the styles are as varied as they are incredible to watch. Johnson shuffles and shim sham shimmies across […]
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RPO and PUSH collab on innovative new program
“Breaking Boundaries with PUSH Physical Theatre” is all about subtle innovations that find both the musicians and stage performers presenting their craft in new contexts
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Creatives in the cold
No one is immune to the itch to check out until the sun returns. For their parts, artists must fight the urge to power down for the season, and instead keep the creativity flowing.
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Theater review: ‘Dracula’ at Blackfriars
Although Christmas decorations quickly replaced any remnants of Halloween in stores, a large harvest moon hangs low in the sky and the weather has just begun the transition from temperate to bone chilling. With the opening of its second 2017-18 season production, “Dracula,” on Halloween, Blackfriars Theatre isn’t in a rush to move past the […]
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Opera like no other
Collaboration between Eastman School, PUSH Physical Theatre, and Mexican arts organizations gives birth to weird, impressive new work It has been more than 60 years since an opera by an Eastman School of Music faculty member premiered in the illustrious Kodak Hall. Now, two Eastman professors of composition — the Mexican-born musicians Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez and […]
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Casey reviews PUSH Physical Theatre
PUSH Physical Theatre, the brainchild of artistic directors and founders Darren and Heather Stevenson, has a satisfying repertoire built from the local company’s 16 years in existence, but it’s always exciting to see a new piece. The Fringe audience Saturday night at the School of the Arts’ main stage was shown the world premiere of […]
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Dance review: PUSH’s “Jekyll and Hyde”
PUSH Physical Theatre’s “Jekyll & Hyde” is an explosive performance that plumbs the depths of the human psyche.
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PUSH Physical Theatre
Darren and Heather Stevenson, co-producers of PUSH Physical Theatre, have been asked more than once whether they wanted their extreme-movement, physical performance company to appear on national television (“America’s Got Talent” has called several times). But this is the first time they’ve accepted. PUSH is currently appearing in the reality competition show “Fake Off,” a […]
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DANCE PREVIEW: “Arc of Ages”
PUSH Physical Theatre’s new masterwork, “Arc of Ages,” embraces epic stories of Western civilization and explores basic human archetypes by depicting the legendary struggles of biblical characters. Dramatic, action-packed interpretations of Samson, Delilah, David, Bathsheba, and Job connect audiences to these characters’ flawed humanness, and to the continued relevance of their plights today. “What do […]
