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MYSTERIOUS: Crystal pite - What They Never Told You

English National Ballet: Body & Soul review – from an army of AI bots to waves of pure human emotion

Kameron N Saunders’s ambitious sci-fi-coded fable is paired with a showcase of Crystal Pite’s mastery in contrasting order with human messiness

The Guardian - UK

‘Having 36 dancers waiting for me fills me with dread’: choreographer Crystal Pite on her seminal productions

The Canadian dance director has created a dazzling body of work that tackles human relationships and the big questions of our times. She talks through pivotal moments in her career

The Guardian - UK

Probably the world's greatest choreographer does not like choreographing

Crystal Pite is in demand around the world for her visceral, epic work but for the Canadian artist, the demands of creation means the journey to success can be a struggle

Evening Standard

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John Lithgow and Lesley Manville take home acting gongs at starry Olivier Awards

Imelda Staunton and Romola Garai were among the winners of the night

The Independent UK

Olivier awards 2025: full list of winners

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Giant and Fiddler on the Roof were among the big winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Figures in Extinction review – Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s impassioned response to the climate crisis

The choreographer and director’s impassioned trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion

The Guardian - UK

Figures in Extinction review – life, death and a heartfelt plea for Earth’s creatures, humans included

Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage itself into a living thing, morphing between shades of sorrow, humour, fear and relief

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‘The unknowable is not nothing’: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in Extinction

Death looms large in the pair’s dance trilogy but, as Complicité’s artistic director says, confronting it is ‘integral to and essential for life’

The Guardian - UK

From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

The Guardian - UK

Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2024

A life-changing crash revisited, a rapturous duet for Matthew Ball and Alina Cojocaru and an everyday story of medieval fantasy

The Guardian - UK

Encounters at the Royal Ballet review: spiky and reflective works – despite the hour-long interval

3/5 This quartet of contemporary dances offers eccentric movement, bravura quartets and meditations on relationships, loneliness and destiny

Evening Standard

National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers review – heavenly revelations and indie spaghetti

A triple bill of modern pieces highlight the challenges of modern ballet, but only in Crystal Pite’s work does it all comes together, especially in the dancing of Siphesihle November

The Guardian - UK

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

Pite and Young turn a meeting of re-enactors into a truly incredible medieval fantasy with a troupe of brilliant dancers

The Guardian - UK

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

Beautiful choreography and a clever script create a shifting, unknowable world in Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s new show

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Assembly Hall at Sadler’s Wells review: we're a long way from Swan Lake in Crystal Pite's beguiling dance show

The latest work by the world’s most in demand choreographer is about the annual general meeting of a failing society of amateur medieval re-enactors

The Guardian - UK

From Three Body Problem to Justin Timberlake: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Game of Thrones showrunners Benioff and Weiss tackle a mega-budget TV adaptation of the Chinese sci-fi novel, and the former ‘NSYNC man returns with some Calvin Harris-produced pop R&B

Evening Standard

Sadler's Wells announces its early 2024 season, with Crystal Pite, Wayne McGregor, and an octopus

Sadler's Wells has announced its new season of work for the first half of 2024, including a UK premiere by Dimitris Papaioannou featuring hundreds of litres of water, a golden field of wheat and an octopus – of course – plus the UK premiere of the latest work by Crystal Pite…

The Guardian - UK

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

Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn a strong triple bill, sublimely danced, Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s Figures in Extinction [1.0] stands out as a powerful portrait of nature under threat

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The Guardian - UK

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

Figures in Extinction [1.0], a Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney collaboration, is the climax to a triple bill featuring excellent technique and film noir atmosphere

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book for 2023

Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour

The Guardian - UK

Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2022

Past and present entwined in a sparkling postmodern revival, a sensational take on Stravinsky and Crystal Pite’s sublime dance of life

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

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

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