Message From the Artistic Directors

​Welcome to PushPULL Dance’s Season 18 show, Simple Pleasures. It has been three years since we were together in this theatre and we are so thrilled that you are here with us again.

Last summer we stepped into our roles as Co-Artistic Directors having no idea what would be possible. Would there be more lockdowns? More outbreaks? Should we plan to perform outside in a park? Did we dare dream of being back in the theatre?
​​​What we knew, and have always known in PushPULL, is that dance ​is what everyone in this company loves. Dance is what unites us, even ​across our differences. Dance is life. It seems appropriate that we are here at the Jewish Community Centre for Season 18, since, in the Hebrew system of numerology, 18 equals “Life”.Through the forced simplification of life during the pandemic, many of us discovered (or rediscovered) our Simple Pleasures ~ foods, crafts, walks, nature… we found ways to feel nourished, even in our isolation. So it only made sense to bring these simple pleasures to the stage, and to celebrate the most important simple pleasure of all: dancing together!
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We never could have created this show as a team of two and would like to thank all the dancers, choreographers, Board members, and our amazing Executive Committee for the tremendous amount of work they’ve done over the past 10 months.

We hope you enjoy watching the show as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. Thank you for making time for the pleasure of sitting in a theatre to watch dance simply for the joy of it. And while you’re at it, remember your own simple pleasures, and relish in them whenever you have the chance!

Katrin Urschel & Lainie Magidsohn
Co-Artistic Directors
PushPULL Dance is a company of non-professional adult dancers from a variety of backgrounds, who share a common passion for dance through performing and enhancing our individual dance repertoires. ​

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The members of PushPULL Dance would like to acknowledge with humility and respect that we dance on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Mississauga, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat peoples, as well as on the unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.  We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa peoples.  We honour and recognize the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis and Inuit, as well as all First Peoples worldwide. As with all things meaningful, words matter, but actions matter more. Let these words be a reminder of the work that is still to be done.