Crystal Pite / Kidd Pivot

LOST ACTION

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7, 8 DEC 8.30 pm

PALLADIUM

National Premiere
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.
“Lost Action” sees her committed with other six dancers of her company Kidd Pivot in a show where her ability to give vigorous shape to abstract ideas emerges with theatrical forcefulness.
An intellectual and physical choreographic vocabulary where the beauty of movement is distorted in the body, is altered in form and is dashed in rhythm.
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 that move along the sound backdrop specifically composed by Owen Belton for the show.
The lost actions, however, are also those of dance that “disappears the very instant it manifests itself – Pite explains – in an extreme expression of the present that is the perfect metaphor of life.”
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.

Born in 1970, Crystal Pite is one of Canada’s most innovative choreographers. She began her professional dance career at Ballet British Columbia before joing Franfurt Ballet in 1996. Upon her return to Vancouver, Canada five years later, she formed Kidd Pivot. Pite’s choreographic works have been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. Her works are charachterized by humour, daring technique and a creative mixture with other arts forms.

Co-producer by L’Agora de la Danse - Brian Webb Dance Company- National Arts Centre - Premiere Dance come parte del CanDance Creation Fund in association with Canada Council for the Arts

Supported by
Ambasciata del Canada in Italia and Agenzia Culturale del Québec in Italia

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