Queen Elizabeth Theatre
7:30pm + 1:30pm
Feb 26 27 28
The season continues with INFINITY, featuring two of the world’s foremost and truly masterful choreographic voices. Crystal Pite’s Frontier is back following its unforgettable 2024 Ballet BC debut, and the work of Jiří Kylián makes a triumphant return to our stage with the visionary 27’52”.
Frontier
Crystal Pite
Music
Owen Belton
Eric Whitacre
One of the most distinct and celebrated choreographers of our time, BC’s own Crystal Pite, has built much of her work around the question of what moves us. Her fascination with the unknowable finds its ultimate expression in Frontier, a work originally created in 2008 and re-imagined for Ballet BC in 2024.
Here, the unknown traverses dark matter, the personification of shadows, and the challenge of doubt. “As a creator, I find a pleasing parallel between what we don’t know about the universe, and what we don’t know about consciousness,” says Pite. “Creation for me is about venturing into unknown territory and being in a generative relationship with doubt.”
Back on stage at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre after a landmark seven-venue tour across the UK including London’s Sadler’s Wells, don’t miss a visionary creation from a globally sought-after talent, here where it all began.
Work
27'52"
Jiří Kylián
Music
Dirk Haubrich
Having created more than 100 dance works since 1970, Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián is one of the most prolific and recognized figures in the history of the art form. Well known for his extraordinary 25 years of service as the Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theater beginning in 1975, his unparalleled body of work has garnered prestigious recognition, including an honorary doctorate from The Juilliard School, The Netherlands’ Medal of the Order for Arts and Science of the House of Orange, and the Czech Republic’s highest honour, the Order of the White Lion.
Made for six dancers who form three duets and set to an original score by German composer Dirk Haubrich, 27’52” is named for its exact duration and explores four theoretical elements: Time, Speed, Love, and Constant Changes; as well as two more concrete set elements—a floor, and a ceiling.
“Of course this piece is about existence, love, and death,” says Kylián. “But it is also about many things in between and it is ultimately up to the interpreter to find all the colours of the rainbow between the floor underneath our feet, and the ceiling above our heads.”
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