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Asssembling a dynamic team of seven dancers at the hieght of their powers, Kidd Pivot artistic director Crystal Pite continues her investigation into the metaphoric implications of movement and performance. Dancers sculpt space in realtime, working inside a form that is constantly in a state of vanishing. In Lost Action, the artists embody both the dance and its disappearance; the inevitable dissolution of their work and their bodies made poignantly apparent. Fuelled by the outstanding abilities of these world-class performers, Lost Action begins as an analysis of the articulated and amazing body, and unfolds to reveal the human element at the centre of the work: the ephemeral body moved by the potent heart.
Pure dance and movement free from all narrative constraints have found in the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite a continuous new flow of gritty and undisciplined creative energy. In Lost Action her ability to give vigorous shape to abstract ideas emerges with theatrical forcefulness. The lost actions of the title are day-to-day things blown to smithereens, decomposed and emptied of contents emerge as a spontaneously evocative kinetic expression. Aggressiveness and compassion, struggle and calm, sensuality and indifference confront each other on the stage as pure emotions. And Pite’s dance – developed in William Forsythe’s companies – finds its strengths in precision and speed and its distinctive trait in the ability to combine classical elements with contemporary complexity and the structures of improvisation.
„She keeps us on guard in uncompromising dance terms.” The Vancouver Sun
„Pite’s strength is how she works her ideas physically, exploring them in kinetic terms to make thrilling choreography. At the physical level alone – for the dancersvirtuosity and the choreogrpher’s mastery of time and space, exits and entrances – Lost action is impressive because so much is revealed in the movement.” The Dance Current.
Crystal Pite is a Vancouver-based choreographer and performer. She trained in dance with Pacific Dance Centre in Victoria, and at programs at the National Ballet School, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the School of the Toronto Dance Theatre. In 1988, she joined Ballet British Columbia in Vancouver. During her eight years as a dancer there, she performed in the works of many choreographers, including John Alleyne, Serge Bennathan, James Kudelka, David Earle, Barry Ingham, and William Forsythe.
Pite’s choreographic debut was in 1990, at Ballet British Columbia’s first choreographic workshop. Since then, she has created new works for Netherlands Dance Theatre 1, Ballett Frankfurt, Les Ballets jazz de Montreal (including a term as Resident Choreographer 2001 - 2004), Ballet British Columbia, the Alberta Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, and several independent dance artists. In 1995 she was presented with the Clifford E. Lee Award for Choreography and was choreographer in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Pite received the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award in 2004, and created a work for Transitions Dance Company at the Laban Centre in London. She has choreographed and performed in several films including Subways, directed by Daniel Conrad for CBC, the feature film One Night Stand, directed by Mike Figgis, and The Score, created by Electric Company.
In 1996, Pite joined Ballett Frankfurt in Germany under the directorship of William Forsythe, performing worldwide in works such as Eidos:Telos, The Loss of Small Detail, and Endless House. She was involved in the creation of Forsythe’s CD-ROM, Improvisation Technologies, and has participated as both performer and creator in Forsythe’s recent works. In 2000, she premiered her own creation for Ballett Frankfurt: Excerpts from a Future Work. The following year, Ballett Frankfurt presented Pite’s duet Field: Fiction – a work she performed with Vancouver’s Cori Caulfield.
In 2001, Pite returned to Canada where she formed her own company, Kidd Pivot, and continues to create and perform in her own work. Kidd Pivot tours nationally and internationally with productions that include Uncollected Work (2002) and Double Story (2004), created with Richard Siegal. Kidd Pivot recently premiered Lost Action, a work for seven dancers that received the Alcan Performing Arts Award for 2006. Kidd Pivot is also the recipient of the 2005 Isadora Award.
Choreographer: Crystal Pite
Performed by:
Eric Beauchesne, Marthe Krummenacher. Francine Liboiron, Malcolm Low, Yannick Matthon, Crystal Pite, Jermaine Spivey
Original music: Owen Belton
Text written and performed by:
Eric Beauchesne, Malcolm Low, Yannick Matthon, Crystal Pite, Victor Quijada
Lighting design: Jonathan Ryder
Costume design: Linda Chow
Co-production partners:
The CanDance Network Creation Fund, L’Agora de la danse, The Brian Webb Dance Company, Harbourfront Centre, The National Arts Centre, and supported by The Canada Council Dance Section.
This production was made possible by the generous support of the Alcan Performing Arts Award (Winner – Dance 2006).
With the support of:
Canadian Embassy (Budapest)
