C R Y S T A L P I T E ‘ S P O L A R I S
Performed as part of Thomas Adès: See the Music, Hear the Dance.
SADLER’S WELLS, LONDON, UK.
“The scale of this work is huge, 64 dancers matched against the orchestral forces of Adès’s score (played, as throughout the evening by the wonderful Britten Sinfonia). But Pite rides the music with a reckless choreographic variety. Her black-costumed dancers appear first as a dark shifting mass, individuals discernible only as a pale pattern of faces and outspread hands. Peeled into lines, they are galvanised into great roiling waves of movement, or shattered into groups that feel like the aftermath of some monumental catastrophe. Polaris shows the talented Pite working at an exceptional level of confidence.”
