Four Solitudes

In 2019, associate choreographer Crystal Pite was one of the creators of the full-evening work Kunstkamer. Now, her poetic quartet from that evening is presented as a stand-alone piece entitled Four Solitudes. Pite says, “Rilke wrote that love consists of “solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.” Love, in this sense, can connect and hold us without opposing aloneness. Four Solitudes is animated by that polarity: we can stand strong in our solitudes and still be virtuosic at togetherness.” Schubert’s piano sonata, performed live on stage, gives voice to Pite’s love for dancers and the luminous music that moves them.