The Canadian dance director has created a dazzling body of work that tackles human relationships and the big questions of our times. She talks through pivotal moments in her career ...
There’s a moment, while watching Crystal Pite’s glorious “The Seasons’ Canon” at Pacific Northwest Ballet, when you suddenly forget to breathe, dazzled by a vision of bodies caught in light. The ...
In the dance world, it’s usually titles that sell tickets. The great Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine once quipped that every ballet should be named “Swan Lake” because then people ...
Light of Passage, Crystal Pite's meditation on safe movement, displacement, community and mortality, returns to the Main Stage of the Royal Opera House this February. Pite's first full-length work for ...
Crystal Pite is renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, and with her surprising and innovative approach she has succeeded in bringing her dance to the attention of a wide audience. She is ...
“Sons of Echo,” in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don’t have a monopoly on bad taste. By Brian Seibert The festival, with its variety of styles and ...
Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Sign up Working with Crystal Pite is intense. By now, that may not come as much of a surprise to Triangle audiences, whom the Canadian ...
Who wants to watch another show about the climate emergency? That’s the question actor and playwright Simon McBurney (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Jane Eyre) and choreographer Crystal Pite ...
The festival, with its variety of styles and cheap tickets, plays to excited audiences. Why can’t it give them better programs? By Brian Seibert The program featured three living female choreographers ...