Experience a moving and timely new work from choreographer Crystal Pite and director Simon McBurney
Humanity’s impact on the natural world is greater than ever before. How can artists meaningfully create in the face of mass destruction?
For the past four years, choreographer Crystal Pite and Complicité artistic director and co-founder Simon McBurney have weaved their hopes and fears for our current moment into the dance trilogy Figures in Extinction. In Spring 2025 Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) and Complicité will present the final instalment of this major new collaboration here at Aviva Studios – performed by the astounding NDT 1 dancers.
The first work, Figures in Extinction [1.0] – a sweeping exploration of species and environments we have lost and are losing – premiered in The Hague in 2022, receiving the top prize for a dance production at the 2022 Nederlandse Dansdagen. The second work, which premiered in February 2024, is a searing look at our need for connection in a separated world.
Making its world premiere at Aviva Studios, Figures in Extinction [3.0] is the third and final piece of this moving trilogy, offering a spark in the darkness as to where we might go next through a mixture of dance, video and spoken word.
The performance at Aviva Studios brings together parts one, two and the never-before-seen part three, and is the first chance to experience the Figures in Extinction series as a whole.
Co-created by Crystal Pite – who is known for her breathtaking and boundary-pushing work in dance – and celebrated actor, writer, director and co-founder of Complicité Simon McBurney, Figures in Extinction is a thought-provoking meditation on the natural world and our relationship to it.
