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Who wants to watch another show about the climate emergency? That’s the question actor and playwright Simon McBurney (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Jane Eyre) and choreographer Crystal Pite ...

Revisor Crystal Pite (choreography) Kidd Pivot (dance company) Directed by Jeff Tudor Recorded at the Sadler's Wells, London Neither simply dance or traditional theatre, but an exciting and ...

The climate crisis is addressed with empathy, wit and assuredness in a new collaboration between Simon McBurney and Crystal Pite, writes Kelly Apter How do you talk about climate change, animals and ...

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The week Figures In Extinction opens at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, a heatwave is burning a path through Europe. It’s an ominous chiming of the themes this piece grapples with (climate breakdown, ...

Ballet BC, Canada’s leading contemporary dance company from British Columbia, aims to create dance at its most essential: visceral, thought-provoking, and transformative. This UK tour features a ...

Based in Vancouver, Ballet BC has a strong Nederlands Dans Theater connection – not least in current director Mehdi Walerski, who performed in Frontier as a dancer with NDT. The dancers are focused ...

“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 ...

A Pyrenean ibex raises its ridged, curving horns, carving up the empty space of the stage. A spider orchid opens like origami, in petal folds of symmetry. An Asiatic cheetah’s scattered skeleton is ...