Tag Crystal Pite

Crystal Pite CM (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian choreographer and dancer. She began her professional dance career in 1988 at Ballet BC, and in 1996 she joined Ballett Frankfurt under the tutelage of William Forsythe. After leaving Ballett Frankfurt she became the resident choreographer of Montreal company Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal from 2001 to 2004. She then returned to Vancouver where she focused on choreographing while continuing to dance in her own pieces until 2010.[2] In 2002 she formed her own company called Kidd Pivot, which produced her original works Uncollected Work (2003), Double Story (2004), Lost Action (2006), Dark Matters (2009), The You Show (2010), The Tempest Replica (2011), Betroffenheit (2015), and Revisor (2019) to date. Throughout her career she has been commissioned by many international dance companies to create new pieces, including The Second Person (2007) for Netherlands Dans Theater and Emergence (2009) for the National Ballet of Canada, the latter of which was awarded four Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Angels’ Atlas

Visually arresting and breathtakingly intimate, Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas combines elements of cinema verite with high-octane dance sequences to reveal the singular vision of world-renowned choreographer Crystal Pite. Culminating in a cinematically immersive live performance of her acclaimed ballet Angels’…

Frontier

Renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, Crystal Pite has succeeded in bringing her surprising and innovative dance approach to a wide audience. Fascinated by familiar storylines of love, conflict and loss, and the body’s role in providing the…

Parade

Season 2016-2017 concludes with an evening solely dedicated to the work of associate choreographer Crystal Pite. NDT 1 will perform a newly developed version of Pite’s eclectic masterpiece Parade (2013). Like many choreographers Pite realized she wanted to return to…

Light of Passage

Flight Pattern was Crystal Pite‘s first work for The Royal Ballet in London, making her the first woman in 18 years to choreograph for the company’s main stage when the piece premiered in 2017. The monumental one-act work was met with…

The Statement

THE STATEMENT Rahi Rezvani online 2

In light of current events, the topicality of The Statement is probably what is most striking about Crystal Pite‘s new work, as the expression of the characters and their use of language are very much linked to our time. The…