Crystal Pite returns to The Royal Ballet to transform her critically acclaimed work Flight Pattern into a full-length world premiere. The winner of an Olivier Award for Best Dance Production in 2018, ...
Bad hair day: Matthew Ball as Perseus and Natalia Osipova as the gorgon in 'Medusa', a new ballet by Sidi Larbi Cherkaouiphoto: Tristram Kenton Cherkaoui’s choice of subject – the ultimate #MeToo ...
From mimicking the swarming of bees in Emergence, to grappling with forces of nature in The Seasons’ Canon, Crystal Pite often eagerly looks to complex configurations and omnipotent powers when ...
Movie"The contemporary face of The Royal Ballet is shown in works from three of today's leading choreographers." ...
If the world wasn’t terrible, this wouldn’t be the Royal Ballet’s first full-length work by a female choreographer in almost 30 years. Crystal Pite’s commission is long overdue and the Canadian ...
Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour is based around seven couples separating and intermingling, to music by Vivaldi and Ezio Bosso and lit with the rich colours suggested by sunset. In ...
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 ...
Crystal Pite’s 30-minute Flight Pattern, her first work for the Royal Ballet, was first staged in 2017. It’s a remarkable achievement – a moving meditation on the plight of refugees, using the first ...