Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Revisor nominated for Britain's Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production
The prizes are the U.K. stage scene’s equivalent to the Tony Awards
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VANCOUVER DANCE artist Crystal Pite and theatre artist Jonathon Young have just nabbed another Olivier Award nomination.
The Brit equivalent of the Tony Awards has nominated the pair for their Kidd Pivot production of Revisor on the Sadler’s Wells stage in London.
The show returns to Vancouver, where it premiered to acclaim in 2019, from March 30 to April 2. DanceHouse presents the production at the Vancouver Playhouse.
Pite and Young have already won a coveted Olivier in 2017 for their international hit Betroffenheit.
In Revisor, the pair take inspiration from Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector in a study of politics and power, the dance driven by voice-over text performed by actors.
The dance-theatre work, with its stylized and physicalized lip-synching, was critically lauded in England, where The Guardian called it “astonishing” and “riveting”.
Pite has choreographed works around the world, for companies such as Nederlands Dans Theater, the Royal Ballet, and the Paris Opera Ballet. Ballet BC fans just got their first look at her short masterpiece The Statement over the past weekend at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
In the new-dance category, the show is up against Dance Umbrella’s Transverse Orientation and Rambert Dance Company’s Draw From Within. Winners are announced at the London ceremony on April 10.
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