Ahead of her new work, which is based on a profound real-life tragedy, the sought-after choreographer discusses dancing with William Forysthe, motherhood and why there are so few women at the top of ...
The pioneering Canadian choreographer talks about the challenge of reinventing story-led dance for modern audiences There's a new spirit abroad in choreography. It offers us beauty and exhilaration, ...
“I have an imaginary post-it note on my fridge,” Crystal Pite tells me. “It says: Remember, you do not like choreographing. It is supposed to remind me to never say yes to another project.” I’ve made ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Crystal Pite has been top of every ballet company’s wishlist for more than a decade and the Olivier-winning ...
It was 2015 and Crystal Pite was supposed to be working on a ballet. But every time the Canadian choreographer sat down to think about it, she ended up watching the news, consumed by its daily horrors ...
From a distance, it might seem like things come easily to Crystal Pite. The well-known Vancouver artist’s genre-mashing work—as likely to feature dancers sporting dinosaur spines as astronaut ...
Flight Pattern, Pite’s original one-act ballet from 2017, remains a meaningful treatise on the refugee crisis and still packs a powerful punch, gut-wrenching in its spectacular and awesome scale.
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