Contemporary ballet today: Wayne McGregor and Crystal Pite
Wayne McGregor, born in 1970, founded Random Dance (now Company Wayne McGregor) in 1992 and since 2006 has been Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, the first from a contemporary dance background. His works for the company include Chroma (2006) and Woolf Works (2015), and his studio collaborates across dance, science and technology.
Crystal Pite, born in 1970 in Terrace, British Columbia, founded Kidd Pivot in Vancouver in 2002. She has been associate choreographer with Nederlands Dans Theater since 2008 and has made works for The Royal Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada, among them Flight Pattern (2017) for the Royal Opera House.
Sources
- Wayne McGregor: About
- Wikipedia: Crystal Pite
- Kidd Pivot (official site)
- Royal Ballet and Opera: The Royal Ballet
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