An evening with Crystal Pite LIVE
Owen Beltoni
An Evening With Crystal Pite includes a new commission, Parade, and a reworked version of the 2008 Frontier. They’re complementary but contrasting works that reflect the 42-year-old choreographer’s continuing quest to understand the true nature of human existence; a quest for meaning that Pite explores with enormously imaginative theatrical flair and a welcome sense of humour.
Both works demonstrate Pite’s often quirky movement style, a mix of the ballet culture she grew up in and the daring experimentalism she later learned as a dancer in the Frankfurt company of trail-blazing choreographer William Forsythe. They also reflect her fascination with puppets and puppetry. Are we all the puppets of an impersonal universe, she asks, or do we have some control?
