To mark her return to Covent Garden, world-leading choreographer Crystal Pite has turned one of her greatest hits into a full-length ballet Marianka Swain has been a culture and features writer for ...

Fifty-four dancers on stage. Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” A light-show backdrop. And that’s just Crystal Pite’s “The Seasons’ Canon,” the centerpiece of Boston Ballet’s “Fall Experience,” which ...

Watching choreographer Crystal Pite in rehearsal with Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers is an experience both brisk and spellbinding. She’s cheerily pragmatic in the directions she gives. Yet the steps ...

Crystal Pite has expanded her 2017 piece Flight Pattern to a three-act evening – and while the quality is high, it’s no longer stratospheric Mark Monahan never really stood a chance: in the Sixties, ...

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite might actually be better known in Europe than here on the North American continent. The Vancouver Island native trained in ballet and danced with Ballet British ...

Choreographer Crystal Pite can make dancers move like a murmuration of starlings, motion pulsing and rippling through a group of bodies. In Light of Passage, her new work for The Royal Ballet, those ...

Jacob's Pillow announces today that Executive and Artistic Director Ella Baff will soon present the fifth annual Jacob's Pillow Dance Award to Crystal Pite, an internationally renowned Canadian ...

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 ...

The Royal Ballet celebrates contemporary choreography in an evening that demonstrates the breadth of choreographic talent working with the Company today. This performance will be available to watch ...

Flight Pattern, Crystal Pite’s first creation for the Royal Ballet in 2017, is a haunting and mesmeric piece of ensemble choreography that speaks gently, yet distinctly, of human migration. It now ...

“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 ...

Crystal Pite’s “Light of Passage” at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines. By Roslyn Sulcas LONDON — A chiaroscuro vision of blacks ...