Anna is a freelance dance critic and arts journalist. Founder of dance company Kidd Pivot, Crystal Pite is one of the world’s most sought after choreographers. She speaks to Anna Winter about ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

You’d have to go back all the way to Mark Morris to find a choreographer from our corner of the world who’s had as much of an impact on the international dance scene as British Columbia’s Crystal Pite ...

Acclaimed Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite premieres her new ballet with the National Ballet of Canada on Feb. 29. The ballet, titled Angels’ Atlas, is Pite’s first piece for the company since her ...

For an indication of why dance artist Crystal Pite is planning a yearlong hiatus, you need only look at the week when the Straight reaches her. She’s just arrived in Montreal from New York City, where ...

Betroffenheit is a German word that refers to the state of shock that follows an unspeakable trauma. It is also the name of one of the most stunning, lauded pieces of theatre to come out of Canada in ...

Acclaimed West Coast dance artist Crystal Pite has won the first biennial award named for the late local choreographer Lola MacLaughlin. On March 1, MacLaughlin's birthday, Pite received the Lola ...