Vancouver 
Events Description
Rooted in Zapotec understandings of muxheidad, Bardaje reanimates a word used to enforce difference with the gestures, memories, and cosmologies it once pushed to the margins. The work emerges from a lineage that stretches linguistically from Persian barah to Arabic bardaj to Italian bardascia—a genealogy of dissent that refuses colonial definitions of gender and sexuality.
Lukas Avendaño moves within a ritual landscape of feathers, metallic paper, gold, silver, and ayoyotes, ancestral seeds that rattle with each step, summoning the sensual and the sacred in equal measure. Through movement, sound, and adornment, ash emerges as a polysemic ritual element unfolding in metaphors—a quintessential symbol of scorched earth, and of the survivors who rise from the ashes of their own bodies. Bardaje becomes a living archaeology of memory and matrilineality, where identity resists containment and vibrates through body and lineage. Neither confession nor spectacle, Bardaje is an embodied meditation on muxheidad: a third gender that defies translation and insists on its own cosmology of beauty, vitality, and becoming.
Who is it for?
Adults
HOW MUCH
Tickets : Standard: $39 // Generous: $59
You can pay what you can afford.
How to get tickets?
Phone: (604) 605-8284
Email: info@pushfestival.ca
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Monday February 2, 2026 to Tuesday February 3, 2026
Mon Feb 2 8:00pm
Tues Feb 3 8:00pm
40 minutes
Venue & Address
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre , 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2W3
Wheelchair accessible
Street Parking
Paid Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
