This workshop is co-presented by New Works and PuSh Festival.
In Practice with PuSh Festival Artists
with Cherish Menzo & Jennifer Piasecki
Sunday, January 24 | 12pm–3pm
Q7 Studios (77 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC)
About the Session:
Join international artists Cherish Menzo (Co-
Rather than offering expert instruction, Cherish and Jennifer will share personal insights, working methods, and practices they’ve implemented to nurture care and balance across roles and relationships — from leadership to freelance collaborators.
About the Facilitators:
Cherish Menzo (°1988, The Netherlands) is a choreographer and dancer, who works from Brussels and Amsterdam.
For her artistic work, she is interested in the transformation of the body on stage and in the “embodiment” of different physical images. Implementing distortion, decay, and dissonance, Cherish attempts to detach bodies from forced perceptions and their daily corporeal realities, underlining the complexity and contradictory nature of images that seem recognizable at first glance. Glitching the ‘’common’’ lexical, the lexical of the speaking being, she seeks the Uncanny, the Enigmatic, and the Monstrous to give shape to – and materialize speculative forms and fictions.
Cherish is currently touring with FRANK, in continuation of JEZEBEL and D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER.
Jennifer Piasecki (Ghent) has been the Production & Tour Manager at GRIP since February 2023, bringing extensive experience in production management across film, television, and dance. Beyond her professional work, she is an enthusiastic dance teacher and co-organizer of HipHopUnite Belgium. At GRIP—a company led by four co-artistic directors—Jennifer has developed a strong focus on well-being, recently completing a course on the subject. She now actively applies these insights within a working group dedicated to fostering people-centered practices and well-being at GRIP, and fulfills the role of internal confidential advisor for the company.
About In Practice:
In Practice is a program for continued education, peer to peer exchange, and knowledge sharing for dance teachers and leaders.
Registration and Cost
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Suggested Workshop Registration $23
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Sliding Scale Option $10-23
*Workshop registrants will never be turned away for lack of funds. If a registration fee is financially inaccessible to you, we invite you to self-identify to request a scholarship, no questions asked. Please reach out to marco@newworks.ca to request a scholarship to attend the next workshop.
Other events with Cherish Menzo at PuSh Festival:
JEZEBEL
by Cherish Menzo / GRIP (Belgium/The Netherlands)
January 22 & 23, 2026 | 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver)
JEZEBEL is a dance performance inspired by the ‘Video Vixen’: female models who appeared in hip hop video clips in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Images in the mass media – and in music videos particularly – often projected the female in a hyper-sensualized way. The repetitive images in hip hop videos reinforce stereotypes associated in particular with black/dark/coloured women. Video Vixens – also referred to as ‘hip hop honeys’ or ‘video girls’ – were the subject of severe criticism and often typified as the ‘Jezebels’ of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Photo by Bas De Brouwer
Co-presented with
Top photo by Sayna Ghaderi.