Crystal PiteCM (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.[1] 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.[3] 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.
In 2010, Kidd Pivot became the resident dance company of the German theatre Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, and for the next three years Pite premiered her work in Frankfurt, Germany. While working in Frankfurt, Pite choreographed The You Show (2010), which explored different types of relationships in various duets and TheTempest Replica (2011) which was based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. When her arrangement with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm expired she became an Associate Artist with Sadler's Wells' in 2013 and created Polaris (2015) based on Thomas Adès's music,[4] using both the dancers from Kidd Pivot and 60 students from New York University.[5] Her work Betroffenheit (2015), a piece co-created with collaborator Jonathon Young, premiered at the 2015 Pan American Games. Her most recent work for Kidd Pivot Revisor (2019), was also created with Jonathon Young, premiering in Vancouver with DanceHouse at The Vancouver Playhouse.[6]
Throughout her career as a choreographer, Pite has choreographed works for world renowned companies such as Nederlands Dans Theatre I, The Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet Jörgen, Ballet BC, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Cullberg Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt, and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet.[1] She has choreographed over 50 works, many of which have been nominated for and won several awards.[1] Currently, while running Kidd Pivot, she is also an Associate Artist at Sadler's Wells in London, an Associate Choreographer with Nederlands Dans Theatre in The Netherlands, and an Associate Dance Artist of Canada's National Arts Centre.[1]
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^"Kidd Pivot (Vancouver) – February 20–23, 2019". DanceHouse. March 15, 2018. Archived from the original on October 30, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
CrystalPite 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...
several guest artists, is led by its founder and artistic director, CrystalPite. Since its formation in 2002 Kidd Pivot has toured extensively around...
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National Ballet was selected to tour with culture shaping choreographers CrystalPite, Jiri Kylian, and Ohad Naharin. At 26 years old, she received a glowing...
Flight Pattern is a one-act contemporary ballet by Canadian choreographer CrystalPite, set to the first movement of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No.3. It premiered...
William Forsythe, James Kudelka, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, CrystalPite, Christopher Wheeldon, Aszure Barton, Guillaume Côté and Robert Binet...
with guest choreographers. For example: Hans van Manen, Johan Inger, CrystalPite, Lukáš Timulak, Cayetano Soto, Marco Goecke, Medhi Walerski, Ohad Naharin...
repertory, including works by Alexander Ekman, Jiří Kylián, Hofesh Shechter, CrystalPite, Jacopo Godani, Angelin Preljocaj, Ohad Naharin, Didy Veldman, Jo Strømgren...
"Betroffenheit" (premiered 2015, co-created by Young and choreographer and dancer CrystalPite), then in "Revisor" (2019), which is a dance interpretation of Nikolai...
full-length ballet, Woolf Works, inspired by three novels by Virginia Woolf. CrystalPite has also choreographed a ballet to Richter's Vivaldi Recomposed, titled...
Ivan Michael Blackstock – 180 Studios (The Strand) Light of Passage by CrystalPite – Royal Opera House Pasionaria by La Veronal – Sadler's Wells Triptych...
Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and CrystalPite. She has also continued to appear as a guest artist. In March 2014, she...
Story: "Nova Scotia: Three Epic Migrations, One People" Maya Bankovic, CrystalPite: Angels' Atlas Iris Ng and Stephen Chung, Artificial Immortality Ken...
ballet dancer, choreographer Jennifer Penney (born 1946), ballet dancer CrystalPite (born 1970), ballet dancer, choreographer Sonia Rodriguez (born 1972)...
Michael Peters Marius Petipa Roland Petit Stephen Petronio Arlene Phillips CrystalPite Anna Plisetskaya Danielle Polanco Angelin Preljocaj Prabhu Deva Pearl...
Production, for their new production Flight Pattern, choreographed by CrystalPite English National Ballet School, the associate school of English National...
the film Ever Deadly. The film CrystalPite: Angels' Atlas, profiling a dance work by ballet choreographer CrystalPite, was also released in 2022. In...
Best New Dance Production Outstanding Achievement in Dance Revisor by CrystalPite and Jonathon Young, Kidd Pivot – Sadler's Wells Draw from Within by Wim...
Lachambre, David Earle, Bill Coleman, Judith Marcuse, Philip Szporer, CrystalPite, and Serge Bennethan. "On the Brink". The Dance Current. 2021-03-09....
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