When better than bonfire night to open a dazzling show about the world going up in smoke? The climate crisis was the original spark for Figures of Extinction – but Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite ...

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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 ...

For Young — a respected theatre director, playwright and actor who had co-founded Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre with his wife Kim Collier, Azra’s mother — it represented the end of things: ...

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 ...

Figures in Extinction is a deeply memorable and profound work of contemporary dance theatre - Rahi Rezvani The Edinburgh International Festival’s 2025 dance programme goes out on a high with Figures ...

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Expanded from her Olivier Award-winning 2017 work, Flight Pattern, into a three-part piece, Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage makes a welcome return to the Royal Opera House three years after its ...