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.
Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, joint creators behind The Guardian’s Best Dance Show of the 21st Century and the Olivier Award-winning Betroffenheit, return to Sadler’s Wells. For their new dance-theatre collaboration, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Crystal Pite and writer and performer Jonathon Young, together with Pite’s company Kidd Pivot, turn their brilliant…
Moving in unison, 36 dancers portray a community of refugees – an anguished pas de deux from one couple is set in strong relief against it. Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite has been acclaimed as ‘one of the most talented and…
Four contemporary choreographers from diverse backgrounds come together to create distinctly original works for the Paris Opera’s resident dance company, leading the dancers to a new form of modernity where bodies vibrate with intensity. Swiss-born James Thierrée takes over the…
Premiere of Body and Soul, choreographed by Vancouver’s own Crystal Pite, and performed by the Paris Opera Ballet. Following the phenomenal success of The Seasons’ Canon in 2016, Pite was invited back in 2019 to create a full-length work for thirty-six dancers of…
RESONANCE, the first NDT 1 programme of the season 25/26, as a livestream from the comfort of your living room. Experience Jiří Kylián‘s Mémoires d’Oubliettes (2009) up close, find yourself right in the middle of Crystal Pite‘s satirical boardroom drama…
Dawn Patrol He’s been escorting (well, dragging) his mom and dad to the Museum of Flight for almost three years. Recently, he added a little brother to his entourage. Price Suddarth (aka Milo’s dad) was fascinated by the stories these…
The Seasons’ Canon is the third work of Crystal Pite‘s to enter Pacific Northwest Ballet‘s repertoire after Emergence and Plot Point. Creation for me is like looking through a lens. It’s a way to see the world in greater detail…
Impasse How do we bridge the gap that continues to grow as we stagnate? The work problematizes the ease with which we blindly adopt what others say or do, and how in so doing we lose the opportunity for fruitful…
The Other You, a duet created by Crystal Pite for Kidd Pivot in 2010, is a portrait of a man in dialogue with his other. The work lives in the tension between contrasting states – conscious and unconscious, civilized and…
