Figures in Extinction

not recommended for children (age 14 and below)

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite and British director Simon McBurney present their trilogy Figures in Extinction — focused on the climate crisis — as a meditation on death.

Dark thoughts are not what drive the two artists, but rather a desire for reconciliation with mortality, an urge to embrace this unfathomable mystery that we too often push out of our lives, when it should instead be a fundamental pillar. In this spirit, Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney use the tools of dance and theatre in a series of visions of striking aesthetic power, where movement speaks louder than words.The trilogy began in 2022 with Figures in Extinction [1.0], in which the choreographer draws on the movements of animals as well as glaciers and rivers, listing all that is threatened with extinction across our planet. The second part focuses on the workings of the human mind, while the third and final instalment explores the intuition that in confronting life’s great unanswered questions can elevate and guide us collectively.

Choreography Crystal Pite & Simon McBurney

Production Nederlands Dans Theater 1 & Complicité

^{Photo © Rahi Rezvani} 

Find the biographies of the choreographers :
Crystal Pite
Simon McBurney

Figures in Extinction [1.0] 
the list

Figures in Extinction [2.0]
but then you come to the humans

Figures in Extinction [3.0] 
requiem

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