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The Hague

10 Dez 2025

Strength to strength: NDT 1’s Resonance feels like a victory lap

Von Mark Vicente

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NDT1 in Figures in Extinction: cerebral and physical excellence

Von Deborah Weiss, 05 November 2025

An extraordinary evening of dance theatre of the highest quality, Figures in Extinction for Nederlands Dans Theater 1 is a thought provoking experience worth repeating.

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London

05 Nov 2025

NDT1 in Figures in Extinction: cerebral and physical excellence

Von Deborah Weiss

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Le NDT 1 triomphe dans Figures in Extinction au Théâtre de la Ville

Von Iris Régnier, 22 Oktober 2025

Fruit d'un travail entre la chorégraphe canadienne Crystal Pite et le metteur en scène britannique Simon McBurney, Figures in Extinction est un succès incontestable, porté par une compagnie au sommet de son art.

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Paris

22 Okt 2025

Le NDT 1 triomphe dans Figures in Extinction au Théâtre de la Ville

Von Iris Régnier

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Edinburgh

Figures in Extinction: a thrilling evening with NDT 1 on the last weekend of the Edinburgh International Festival

Von Kathy Elgin, 22 August 2025

An evening focused on the separation of humanity from the natural world and the destruction of that world, either because of ignorance, greed or just not caring.

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Edinburgh

22 Aug 2025

Figures in Extinction: a thrilling evening with NDT 1

Von Kathy Elgin

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Shadows and light: Ballet BC

Von Zoë Anderson, 20 Mai 2025

Ballet BC’s double bill puts Crystal Pite’s marvellous, shadowy Frontier in conversation with the folk-tinged comedy of Johan Inger’s Passing.

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London

20 Mai 2025

Shadows and light: Ballet BC

Von Zoë Anderson

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The Royal Ballet’s Light of Passage: mesmerisingly beautiful

Von Amanda Jennings, 20 Februar 2025

Overall, Light of Passage is one of those glorious pieces where music, choreography and design meld together to make theatrical magic.

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London

20 Feb 2025

The Royal Ballet’s Light of Passage: mesmerisingly beautiful

Von Amanda Jennings

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Le travail tout en nuances de Pite et Papadopoulos par le NDT 1 au Théâtre de la Ville

Von Laurine Mortha, 24 Oktober 2024

Avec Solo Echo de Crystal Pite et Ties Unseen de Christos Papadopoulos, le Nederlands Dans Theater 1 a présenté deux œuvres qui travaillent la notion de nuance avec une véritable puissance visuelle.

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Paris

24 Okt 2024

Le travail tout en nuances de Pite et Papadopoulos par le NDT 1

Von Laurine Mortha

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Encounters: The Royal Ballet at its versatile best

Von Amanda Jennings, 22 Oktober 2024

In a quadruple bill of contemporary works, The Royal Ballet's dancers shine in this diverse programme, creating an immersive experience.

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London

22 Okt 2024

Encounters: The Royal Ballet at its versatile best

Von Amanda Jennings

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Par-delà le Bien et le Mal : le Ballet national du Canada au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Jade Larine, 12 Oktober 2024

Avec trois premières françaises de chorégraphes canadiens, le Ballet a marqué son territoire dans une soirée qui est allée crescendo, jusqu'à l'époustouflant Angels' Atlas de Crystal Pite.

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Paris

12 Okt 2024

Par-delà le Bien et le Mal : le Ballet national du Canada au TCE

Von Jade Larine

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The National Ballet of Canada: an impressive return to the UK

Von Graham Watts, 02 Oktober 2024

A long-awaited return to the UK, showcasing the work of Canadian choreographers in an outstanding mixed programme.

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London

02 Okt 2024

The National Ballet of Canada: an impressive return to the UK

Von Graham Watts

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Edinburgh

Cystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Assembly Hall: enjoyable madness!

Von Kathy Elgin, 22 August 2024

Spot-on dance-theatre not taking itself too seriously, daring to be genuinely funny.

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Edinburgh

22 Aug 2024

Cystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Assembly Hall: enjoyable madness!

Von Kathy Elgin

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Berlin

Overture and Angels’ Atlas: transcendental in Berlin

Von Katja Vaghi, 28 April 2024

Pondering upon society and the human condition: Marcos Morau’s Overture and Crystal Pite’s Angels’ Atlas at the Staatsballett Berlin.

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Berlin

28 Apr 2024

Overture and Angels’ Atlas: transcendental in Berlin

Von Katja Vaghi

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Crystal Pite en clair-obscur dans Light of Passage au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Jade Larine, 04 April 2024

La chorégraphe signe des ensembles magistraux dans son habituelle esthétique mystique et prouve une fois de plus qu'elle est une immense artiste, même si son triptyque aurait pu tenir un propos plus incisif.

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Paris

04 Apr 2024

Crystal Pite en clair-obscur dans Light of Passage au TCE

Von Jade Larine

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Assembly Hall, la nouvelle création épique de Crystal Pite et Jonathon Young au Théâtre de la Ville

Von Laurine Mortha, 02 April 2024

Dans leur nouvelle création, le duo canadien et la compagnie Kidd Pivot proposent une extraordinaire et improbable croisée des mondes entre le conte médiéval et l’univers associatif contemporain nord-américain.

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Paris

02 Apr 2024

L'épique Assembly Hall de Pite et Young au Théâtre de la Ville

Von Laurine Mortha

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Assembly Hall: Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young on familiar turf

Von Graham Watts, 20 März 2024

Pite and Young bring more of the same, in their unique brand of dance theatre.

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London

20 Mär 2024

Assembly Hall: Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young on familiar turf

Von Graham Watts

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L'universel Seasons' Canon de Crystal Pite ouvre le bal au Palais Garnier

Von Jade Larine, 23 September 2023

En trente-cinq minutes suspendues, le ballet nous propose un extraordinaire récit des origines et ouvre magistralement la nouvelle saison du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.

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Paris

23 Sep 2023

L'universel Seasons' Canon de Crystal Pite ouvre le bal à Garnier

Von Jade Larine

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Antwerp

Royal Ballet Flanders: it's either bemusing or brilliant!

Von Jonathan Gray, 03 Juni 2023

Three linked works of contemporary ballet provoke a very mixed response.

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Antwerp

03 Jun 2023

Royal Ballet Flanders: it's either bemusing or brilliant!

Von Jonathan Gray

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Oslo

Norwegian National Ballet does justice to Pite's Light of Passage

Von Graham Watts, 22 April 2023

Powerful and thoroughly absorbing living art.

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Oslo

22 Apr 2023

Norwegian National Ballet does justice to Pite's Light of Passage

Von Graham Watts

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NDT1 on top form: La Ruta/Gods and Dogs/Figures in Extinction [1.0]

Von Graham Watts, 19 April 2023

NDT1 returns to London with an eclectic and absorbing programme of old and new.

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London

19 Apr 2023

NDT1 on top form: La Ruta/Gods and Dogs/Figures in Extinction [1.0]

Von Graham Watts

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New York City

National Ballet of Canada's Angels' Atlas had no wings

Von Ivy Lin, 30 März 2023

Crystal Pite’s Angels’ Atlas offers a strange closer for the NBC's program in their brief run at New York City Center.

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New York City

30 Mär 2023

National Ballet of Canada's Angels' Atlas had no wings

Von Ivy Lin

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Hauntingly beautiful: Crystal Pite's Light of Passage at The Royal Ballet

Von Graham Watts, 18 Oktober 2022

Pite's first full-length ballet at the Royal Opera House is a brief but powerful work, expanding her 2017 creation, Flight Pattern.

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London

18 Okt 2022

Hauntingly beautiful: Crystal Pite's Light of Passage at the ROH

Von Graham Watts

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Sydney

Kunstkamer: The Australian Ballet's “beautiful monster” is dance perfection

Von Chantal Nguyen, 03 Mai 2022

The Australian Ballet's impressively-danced Kunstkamer is a work of astonishing scale, originality, and warmth, choreographed by Paul Lighfoot, Sol León, Marco Goecke and Crystal Pite.

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Sydney

03 Mai 2022

The Australian Ballet's “beautiful monster” is dance perfection

Von Chantal Nguyen

A mixed bag for The Royal Ballet's mixed bill

Von Graham Watts, 24 März 2022

Kyle Abraham's The Weathering doesn't feel particularly fresh on its premiere, but Crystal Pite's Solo Echo and Christopher Wheeldon's Danse à Grande Vitesse pep up the first triple bill of the season at Covent Garden.

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London

24 Mär 2022

A mixed bag for The Royal Ballet's mixed bill

Von Graham Watts

Seattle

Plot Points: Pacific Northwest Ballet is back with four contemporary works

Von Philippa Kiraly, 18 März 2022

Four works – one new, two older and a PNB premiere – display the company in all its imaginative versatility and fine technique.

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Seattle

18 Mär 2022

Pacific Northwest Ballet is back with four contemporary works

Von Philippa Kiraly

Dialogues et pas-de-deux mémorables au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Laurine Mortha, 03 Dezember 2021

Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, Crystal Pite, Sasha Waltz, Emma Portner... Convoquant une palette d'artistes fameux au TCE, Dialogues est un très beau panorama chorégraphique, interprété avec beaucoup de qualité.

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Paris

03 Dez 2021

Dialogues et pas-de-deux mémorables au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Laurine Mortha

Zürich

Crystal Pite's Angels’ Atlas triumphs in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 01 Oktober 2021

World-renowned choreographers Crystal Pite and Marco Goecke bring their unparalleled electricity and imagination to the Zurich stage.

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Zürich

01 Okt 2021

Crystal Pite's Angels’ Atlas triumphs in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet

The reawakening: 21st-Century Choreographers celebrated by The Royal Ballet

Von Graham Watts, 18 Mai 2021

The first post-lockdown performance by The Royal Ballet offer an important indicator for the company's future.

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London

18 Mai 2021

21st-Century Choreographers celebrated by The Royal Ballet

Von Graham Watts

Tokyo

Afternoon of Fauns and Nymphs shows diversity of Japanese contemporary dance

Von Naomi Mori, 26 März 2021

New National Theatre Tokyo's gala evening of six works by six pairs of dancers was a brilliant evening showing works from Japan's leading choreographers and dancers.

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Tokyo

26 Mär 2021

Fauns and Nymphs shows diversity of Japanese contemporary dance

Von Naomi Mori

Body and Soul, création grandiose de Crystal Pite à l’Opéra de Paris

Von Laurine Mortha, 30 Oktober 2019

Après le succès de The Seasons’ Canon, le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris donne de nouveau carte blanche à Crystal Pite pour une composition de grande envergure intitulée Body and Soul.

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Paris

30 Okt 2019

Body and Soul, création grandiose de Crystal Pite à l’Opéra de Paris

Von Laurine Mortha

A bad hair day for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Medusa at The Royal Ballet

Von Graham Watts, 08 Mai 2019

A mixed bill of modern work showcases the diverse talents of The Royal Ballet.

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London

08 Mai 2019

A bad hair day for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Medusa

Von Graham Watts

Amsterdam

Timeless and uplifting: NDT1 dances Crystal Pite

Von Lambrecht Wessels, 02 April 2019

Nederlands Dans Theater 1’s new triple bill premieres Imre Van Opstal and Marne Van Opstal's Take Root alongside works by Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar and Crystal Pite.

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Amsterdam

02 Apr 2019

Timeless and uplifting: NDT1 dances Crystal Pite

Von Lambrecht Wessels

NDT brings a successful mixed programme to London

Von Graham Watts, 26 Juni 2018

Everything Pite choreographs turns to gold and when Young is also involved it’s an especially rich vein.

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London

26 Jun 2018

NDT brings a successful mixed programme to London

Von Graham Watts

Montreal

Crystal Pite, Jonathon Young and the beauty of grief

Von Rebecca Galloway, 05 Juni 2018

The German word Betroffenheit doesn’t translate easily to English. Any German-English dictionary will spit out approximations like "shocked" and "dismayed", but for a real translation, see Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young’s challenging, beautiful work by the same name.

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Montreal

05 Jun 2018

Betroffenheit: Pite,Young and the beauty of grief

Von Rebecca Galloway

Amsterdam

NDT's Savoir Faire programme is a feast of virtuosi dances

Von Lambrecht Wessels, 24 Mai 2018

Shut Eye (Lightfoot & León) is like an alternating current. Woke Up Blind (Goecke) is entertaining and vulnerable. Pite's work hits the rythmic nail on the head. You want to freeze-frame Pite's dancers, snap a picture and hang it on the wall.

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Amsterdam

24 Mai 2018

A feast of virtuosi dances

Von Lambrecht Wessels

Soirée Thierrée / Shechter / Perez / Pite à l’Opéra Garnier : coup de projecteur sur la création contemporaine

Von Laurine Mortha, 22 Mai 2018

L’Opéra de Paris rassemble quatre chorégraphes contemporains dans une soirée qui met un coup de projecteur sur la création contemporaine. Déjà plébiscité en 2016, le remarquable ballet de Crystal Pite est le point d’orgue de cette soirée.

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Paris

22 Mai 2018

Coup de projecteur sur la création contemporaine à l'Opéra Garnier

Von Laurine Mortha

Madrid

Cherkaoui and Pite in Royal Ballet of Flanders’ attractive triple bill in Madrid

Von Cristina de Lucas, 19 Mai 2018

The Royal Ballet of Flanders presents in Madrid's Teatros del Canal an attractive triple bill with works by its Artistic Director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Firebird and Faun) and the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite (Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue)

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Madrid

19 Mai 2018

Cherkaoui and Pite

Von Cristina de Lucas

Ballet British Columbia: 16 + a room/ Solo Echo/ Bill

Von Graham Watts, 06 März 2018

Sophisticated and fluid dance mixed with notable muscularity and strength in a woman-only choreographic programme

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London

06 Mär 2018

Ballet British Columbia hits London

Von Graham Watts

Zürich

A stunning double-bill of ballets by León/Lightfoot and Crystal Pite in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet, 13 Januar 2018

Zurich recently welcomed the Swiss premieres of two extraordinary ballets, one by choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, the other by Crystal Pite.

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Zürich

13 Jan 2018

León/Lightfoot & Crystal Pite in Zurich

Von Sarah Batschelet

Berlin

It was not a dream! Four aces of choreography in Berlin

Von Katja Vaghi, 29 November 2017

NDT's main company is back in Berlin, at the House of the Berliner Festspiele, with works by four aces of contemporary choreography. More classically abstract works are successfully paired with ones for the digital-literate.

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Berlin

29 Nov 2017

NDT in Berlin

Von Katja Vaghi

L'énergie vibrante de Crystal Pite dansée par le NDT à Chaillot

Von Laurine Mortha, 27 Juni 2017

Le Nederlands Dans Theater est de retour au Palais de Chaillot avec une programmation associant une création récente de la chorégraphe canadienne Crystal Pite et deux pièces de Sol León et Paul Lightfoot, chorégraphes en résidence et co-directeurs artistiques du NDT depuis 2011.

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Paris

27 Jun 2017

Crystal Pite & NDT à Chaillot

Von Laurine Mortha

Scottish Ballet: MC14/22 (Ceci est mon corps)/ Emergence

Von Graham Watts, 07 Juni 2017

Scottish Ballet meets the complex challenges of two great contemporary choreographers with considerable beauty

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London

07 Jun 2017

Scottish Ballet, Sadler's Wells

Von Graham Watts

Betroffenheit: Kidd Pivot hits London

Von Erin Whitcroft, 11 April 2017

An outstanding exploration of trauma and reprieve.

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London

11 Apr 2017

Betroffenheit

Von Erin Whitcroft

The Royal Ballet: The Human Seasons/ After the Rain / Flight Pattern

Von Graham Watts, 16 März 2017

A world premiere that gives yet more credence to the burgeoning reputation of Crystal Pite for creating absorbing mass movement of considerable beauty

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London

16 Mär 2017

The Human Seasons/ After the Rain / Flight Pattern

Von Graham Watts

New York City

Nederlands Dans Theater: An affirmation of our humanity

Von Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 16 November 2016

This was a terrific performance by a world class troupe of dancers.

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New York City

16 Nov 2016

Nederlands Dans Theater: An affirmation of our humanity

Von Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Montreal

NDT returns to Montreal after a 20 year absence

Von Rebecca Galloway, 01 November 2016

The house was packed to the rafters at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve last Tuesday; it seemed the entire city turned out to witness Nederlands Dans Theater make its return after a twenty year absence.

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