The Guardian

Crystal Pite: 'I'm trying to excavate the truth'

The pioneering Canadian choreographer talks about the challenge of reinventing story-led dance for modern audiences There's a new spirit abroad in choreography. It offers us beauty and exhilaration, ...
The Guardian

Crystal Pite: 'In ballet, girls are less likely to be prized for being mavericks'

Ahead of her new work, which is based on a profound real-life tragedy, the sought-after choreographer discusses dancing with William Forysthe, motherhood and why there are so few women at the top of ...
The Georgia Straight

Crystal Pite plays the puppetmaster in Dark Matters

From a distance, it might seem like things come easily to Crystal Pite. The well-known Vancouver artist’s genre-mashing work—as likely to feature dancers sporting dinosaur spines as astronaut ...
London Evening Standard

Probably the world's greatest choreographer does not like choreographing

“I have an imaginary post-it note on my fridge,” Crystal Pite tells me. “It says: Remember, you do not like choreographing. It is supposed to remind me to never say yes to another project.” I’ve made ...
The Independent

Crystal Pite: ‘There’s a profound optimism in gathering together and creating something’

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 Georgia Straight

With Dark Matters, Crystal Pite casts a creepy spell

A Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM production. Presented by DanceHouse and the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Friday, February 26. No remaining performances In her Dark Matters ...
Seattle Times

Ballet meets Hitchcock? Crystal Pite’s ‘Plot Point’ is set to music of ‘Psycho’ at Pacific Northwest Ballet

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 ...
The Financial Times

Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage review — deeply moving dance tackles human rights

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2017, it was the first new ballet by a ...
The Independent

Flight Pattern, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, review: It has immense scale and ambition

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The Daily Telegraph

Crystal Pite: 'Every time, I ask myself: why am I doing this in dance?'

Sadler's Wells's newest associate artist - gifted Canadian choreographer Crystal PIte - tells Sarah Crompton how about the challenges of telling The Tempest without words Choreographer Crystal Pite: ...