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Crystal Pite

March 2024

  • A tableau of dancers all dressed as medieval knights on a stage within a stage

    Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young/Kidd Pivot: Assembly Hall review – making the mundane astonishing

  • Assembly Hall

    Assembly Hall review – medieval reenactors joust in a whirl of fantasy and mundanity

April 2023

  • Figures in Extinction [1.0]: ‘angry and incredibly moving’.

    Nederlands Dans Theater NDT1 review – a cri de coeur about the climate crisis

  • Sweeping curves … Luca-Andrea Tessarini in Figures in Extinction [1.0] by Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney

    Nederlands Dans Theater review – a moving menagerie from a world in crisis

December 2022

  • Light of Passage by Crystal Pite at the Royal Opera House.

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2022

  • All the right moves … Peaky Blinders, An Untitled Love and Ruination.

    2022 in Culture
    The best dance of 2022

October 2022

  • A child, standing with one leg bent, is surrounded by adult dancers who gently hold the child's arms and legs in Crystal Pite's Light of Passage

    Light of Passage review – Crystal Pite’s magnificent dance of life

    The Canadian choreographer has turned 2017’s acclaimed Flight Pattern into a full-length work that brims with massed energy and profound humanity
  • Light of Passage at Royal Opera House, London.

    Light of Passage review – mesmerising moves from Crystal Pite

    With shimmering music and a signature use of massed bodies, Pite transforms her acclaimed Flight Pattern into a full-length work
  • Unexpected twists … Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty.

    ‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?

    Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out

March 2022

  • The Royal Ballet's production of Kyle Abraham's The Weathering.

    Royal Ballet review – Kyle Abraham’s fresh style connects to the real world

    The versatility of the modern ballet dancer is showcased in a triple bill featuring works by Crystal Pite and Christopher Wheeldon

May 2021

  • Valentino Zucchetti and Francesca Hayward in Within the Golden Hour by Christopher Wheeldon.

    The Royal Ballet: 21st-Century Choreographers review – racing out of the blocks

    Works by Christopher Wheeldon, Crystal Pite and rising star Kyle Abraham reveal a company eager to pursue expressive and exciting directions

December 2020

  • Revisor by Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot at Sadler’s Wells, London.

    Observer critics' review of 2020
    Dance: Sarah Crompton's five best dance of 2020

    Our critic chooses her highlights, recalling inventive lockdown venues and the emotional return of the Royal Ballet

March 2020

  • A scene from Revisor by Kidd Pivot @ Sadler's Wells.

    The week in dance: Revisor; Antigone, Interrupted – review

  • From left to right, Jermaine Maurice Spivey, Rena Narumi, Doug Letheren and David Raymond in Revisor.

    Revisor review – astonishing take on Gogol demands to be seen again

January 2020

  • From left: Jessica Chastain, Cush Jumbo, Timothée Chalamet, Testmatch, Back to the Future.

    2020 culture preview
    Star debuts and happy returns: theatre, dance and comedy in 2020

    Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery

September 2019

  • Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells, London.

    Best culture of the 21st century
    Crystal Pite: the dance genius who stages the impossible

  • From left: Formosa, Woolf Works, Bosque Ardora, Desh

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The best dance of the 21st century

May 2019

  • Emoting her heart out … Natalia Osipova in the world premiere of Medusa by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

    Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern review – monsters and melancholy

    Crystal Pite reinvents the corps de ballet, alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s classy meditation and a flawed world premiere by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

January 2019

  • A scene from Gray from Blak Whyte Gray by Boy Blue Entertainment @ Barbican Theatre.

    Leaps and bounds: what I learned in 13 years as the Observer's dance critic

    After filing his final dance review last month, Luke Jennings reflects on the transcendent highs and excruciating lows, and his hopes for the future of the art form

July 2018

  • ‘Whiplash precision’: NDT1’s dancers perform Crystal Pite’s The Statement at Sadler’s Wells.

    Nederlands Dans Theater 1 review – performing miracles

    Crystal Pite’s thrilling boardroom manoeuvres are the high point in an otherwise shallow programme from these Dutch masters
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