When creating choreography, drawing inspiration from other practitioners' work can be helpful. Often, choreographers who have been in the industry have years' worth of knowledge and experience behind their creative process, so I find watching interviews is a valuable tool for learning different devices and how they choose to convey their stimuli in the movement. I also enjoy seeing other industry trends and what makes them so popular with the public. It can also be interesting to observe aspects similar to my work and how the differences between them affect the impact of the piece.
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Crystal Pite is a Canadian choreographer and the director of her dance company, Kidd Pivot, which she founded in 2002. In her career, Pite has created more than 50 works for various companies such as Nederlands Dans Theater, The Royal Ballet, and Paris Opera Ballet (Crystal, et al.).
From the few pieces I've watched online thus far, Pite's work has a strong contemporary technique base permeated with lines typically seen in classical ballet. This is a stylization that I enjoyed incorporating into my own choreography in previous projects; however, Pite also includes a lot more floorwork throughout her choreography, which is an area I would like to explore more when creating my piece as I feel it adds more dimension and variety. Her works often include the narrative aspect of a theme explored in the first half, followed by abstract movement in the second half. Her works often revolve around narratives of the human spirit and how we connect both in modern settings and within our primal instincts. Pite has often quoted that she used choreography as a coping mechanism in situations she might otherwise feel powerless; for example, her 2017 work 'Flight Pattern' focused on the humanitarian refugee crises. (Pite, 2019)
Concerning creating my choreography, I'm looking forward to researching Pite's work further and learning more about what inspires her creative choreographic process.
Bibliography:
Ballet BC, 2020. Solo Echo - Crystal Pite (Virtual Archive, Ballet BC, 2015). [Video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IId60ukhApw> [Accessed 19 October 2021].
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2018. Spotlight On: Kidd Pivot's Revisor. [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUUWavRw7F4> [Accessed 19 October 2021].
Kidd Pivot, 2019. Kidd Pivot - Revisor Trailer. [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAURcKfQc94> [Accessed 19 October 2021].
National Arts Centre (2022) Crystal Pite: Biographies, Biographies | National Arts Centre. Available at: https://nac-cna.ca/en/bio/crystal-pite (Accessed: 10 October 2023).
Opera.se. 2021. Solo Echo - Repertoire - Dance - GöteborgsOperan - GB. [online] Available at: <https://www.opera.se/en/dance/repertoire/solo-echo/> [Accessed 20 November 2021].
O’Neill , S. (2018) ‘How Crystal Pite builds her striking choreographic phrases’, CBC. CBC Arts, 2 October. Available at: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/inthemaking/how-crystal-pite-builds-her-striking-choreographic-phrases-1.4846069 (Accessed: 02 November 2023).
Pite, C. (2019) Flight pattern 2019, Royal Opera House. Available at: https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/flight-pattern-2019-digital (Accessed: 10 October 2023).
Randle, C. (2013) Crystal Pite in rehearsal for 2004’s Double Story. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/22/crystal-pite-interview-sadlers-wells (Accessed: 20 January 2024).
Royal Opera House, 2019. Flight Pattern – Crystal Pite (Kristen McNally, Marcelino Sambé; The Royal Ballet). [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrNfZ6pCn9M> [Accessed 19 October 2021].
Royal Opera House, 2021. The Royal Ballet rehearse Crystal Pite's The Statement and Solo Echo. [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNZ_t9xF98> [Accessed 19 October 2021]
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