Our Mission

Kidd Pivot believes that dance has an essential role to play in invigorating our shared cultural discourse. Dance is a profoundly human mode of communication: our physical gestures are as much language as action. Dance is also an extreme expression of the present moment, a distillate of the body’s strength and complexity, fragility and impermanence. Kidd Pivot locates its work here, in the heightened awareness conjured by the present’s disappearance, and in the resonance of kinetic images in each of our minds, in our experience of the body. Dancers and viewers alike, we move; we have all been moved.

Kidd Pivot creates high calibre performance work in which movement invention, theatrical innovation and ongoing experiment – in form, aesthetic, content and delivery – are paramount. Equally important is the work’s ability to connect to the public, and the organization values accessibility as a means of achieving strong impact. Kidd Pivot supports mutual active engagement between artists and audiences through the use of dialogue, workshops, alternate media, and educational resources to complement stage performances and presentation activity.

About KIDD PIVOT 

World-renowned for radical hybrids of dance and theatre, Kidd Pivot creations are assembled with a keen sense of wit and invention. Led by Canadian choreographer and director Crystal Pite, the company is unflinching in the face of such challenging and complex themes as trauma, addiction, conflict, consciousness and mortality. Pite’s bold and original vision has earned her international acclaim and inspired an entire generation of dance artists.

Kidd Pivot strives to distill and translate universal questions into artworks that connect us to profound and essential parts of humanity. “Running through all of our work is the question of what moves us,” says Pite.

Kidd Pivot tours internationally with critically acclaimed works such as Betroffenheit and Revisor (both co-created with playwright Jonathon Young), The Tempest Replica, Dark Matters, Lost Action, and The You Show.