Revisor
Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young
March 30 – April 2, 2022 | 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission
Pre-show Talk 7:15pm each night in the Vancouver Playhouse Upper Lobby. Hosts: Mirna Zagar (Executive Director, The Dance Centre – Mar 30 & 31), Artemis Gordon (Artistic Director, Arts Umbrella Dance – Apr 1 & 2). Guests: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, co-creators of Revisor.
Post-show Social after the performance on Friday night in the Playhouse Salons.
AJ is a Canadian artist who has been working in the disciplines of music, sound, theatre, and film for the past 30 years. He is frequently executed, maimed, disemboweled, dismembered, immolated, crucified and/or air-locked on your favourite locally-shot television programs and films. He often lends his voice to the animated programs which your kids/grand-kids/great-grand-kids/socially-awkward uncles currently binge. As a composer and sound designer, his creative energies have contributed to/detracted from numerous productions and films. People have occasionally given him trophies for his work. Some of them are transparent, and others more opaque. He makes his home in Vancouver with his partner and frequent collaborator, Meg Roe, and their three children.
Jay Gower Taylor started out in theatre as a professional dancer where he enjoyed an international career spanning more than twenty years. As a scenic designer he has collaborated with Crystal Pite over the last decade, creating onstage environments for works such as Plot Point, Frontier, Solo Echo, Parade, In the Event, Partita for 8 Dancers, and The Statement for Nederlands Dans Theater; Emergence and Angels’ Atlas ( co-production with Zurich Ballet) for the National Ballet of Canada; Polaris for Sadler’s Wells; The Seasons’ Canon and Body and Soul for The Paris Opera Ballet; and Flight Pattern for The Royal Ballet. For Pite’s own company, Kidd Pivot, he designed Dark Matters, The Tempest Replica, Betroffenheit, and most recently, Revisor. 
Nancy Bryant works widely as a designer in dance, theatre, opera and film. Her home is on the west coast of Canada in Vancouver. Previous collaborations with Pite include Body and Soul and The Seasons’ Canon (Paris Opera), Flight Pattern (Royal Ballet), Partita, Parade and Plot Point (Netherlands Dance Theater), Revisor, The Tempest Replica (Kidd Pivot) and Betroffenheit (Kidd Pivot/Electric Co.); and most recently, Angels’ Atlas (National Ballet of Canada / Zurich Opera House). Bryant’s work has brought her together with various teams of fellow designers, directors, writers and choreographers to theatres and production workshops across Canada, the USA, the UK and to Europe. Her approach to costume design has been influenced by her visual arts background and many years of exceptional collaborations with some of Canada’s most innovative and groundbreaking theatre artists.
Tom Visser grew up in the countryside of west Ireland. At the age of 18 he started working in music theatre through his theatrical family and in dance through the Nederlands Dans Theater. Since 2005 he has created original designs for choreographers including Crystal Pite, Alexander Ekman, Johan Inger, Stijn Celis, Lukas Timulak, Sharon Eyal, Hofesh Shechter, and more.
Born in Québec, Eric has been on stage with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, as well as with Canadian contemporary dance icons such as La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, Paul-André Fortier, Louise Lecavalier and Crystal Pite. Company member since 2004, Eric now collaborates with Kidd Pivot as associate artistic director, and stages Pite’s work on companies worldwide. Eric has served as guest teacher for several organizations as well as rehearsal director for Nederlands Dans Theater. He currently resides in Holland and devotes his spare time advocating for climate action in the dance world.
Brandon Lee Alley began his professional career with Hubbard Street 2 followed by one year with BODYTRAFFIC in LA. In 2015, he joined Ballet BC where he had the privilege of dancing many leading roles for 5 seasons. Brandon is also the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Dance//Novella collective based in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to creating dance, Brandon has a passion for sound design. He has made several original scores for dance and is excited to be formalizing his training with an audio engineering diploma from the SAE institute in North Vancouver.
Jennifer Florentino, born in Paterson, NJ, 
Rakeem Hardy, originally from Toronto, Canada, received their BFA and the Thayer Fellowship Award from the State University of New York at Purchase College. Through their time at Purchase, they performed works by Ohad Naharin, Doug Varone, Sidra Bell, Norbert De La Cruz III, and Roderick George. They received additional training at the Taipei National University of the Arts, as well at Springboard Danse Montreal where they performed pieces by Crystal Pite, Alejandro Cerrudo, and Aszure Barton. Rakeem has collaborated and performed with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Loni Landon Dance Projects, Collectif LA TRESSE, and Gallim Dance. 
Doug is a Juilliard graduate and has danced with the Batsheva Dance Company, Sharon Eyal’s L-E-V, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Alan Lucien Øyen’s Winterguests, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance, Adam Linder, and Kidd Pivot. He is a recipient of the 2007 Movado Future Legends Award, and a 2019 Der Faust German Theater Prize nominee. 
Gregory Lau 
Rena was born in Tokyo, Japan. She trained at Centre d’artchoregraphique Franco-Japonais in Paris, France and Arts Umbrella dance graduate program in Vancouver BC,CANADA. She has performed with Kidd Pivot, Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Royal Swedish Ballet (RSB), Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (NDT1). With RSB, she performed the main role of Juliet in “Juliet and Romeo” by Mats Ek. With NDT1, she traveled all over the world to perform.
Ella Rothschild was born in Israel and is a choreographer, multidisciplinary artist and dancer. Rothschild received the Rosenblum Performing-Arts Award by the city of Tel-Aviv for promising creator of 2016, as well as the ministry of cultural award. In 2017 she received the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for the best solo performer. Between 2013 to 2022, Ella created and performed eleven of her works in Israel, Europe, Japan, and the US. In 2020 Ella received a residency at Baryshnikov art center (NYC) and was named an artist in residence in the Suzanne Dellal Centre’s inaugural residency program where she created her work 
Vivian Ruiz was born in Miami, Florida where she began her dance training at the age of 7 and later moved to Vancouver BC in 2019 to attend the Arts Umbrella post-Secondary Program under the direction of Artemis Gordon. While at Arts Umbrella Vivian got to study works by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, Medhi Walerski, Nacho Dureto, Victor Quijada, David Raymond, Lesley Telford, Lukas Timulak, Sharon Eyal. This past year Vivian had the opportunity of being a part of the research process for Crystal Pite’s “Animation”.
Renée was born in Saskatchewan and moved to Vancouver in 2008. Since graduating from Modus Operandi contemporary dance program in 2012, she has performed in several works with Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, Company 605, Wen Wei Dance, Mascall Dance, Kinesis Somatheatro & EDAM. She joined Kidd Pivot in 2018.
Jermaine Maurice Spivey was born in Baltimore, Maryland USA and is a graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and The Juilliard School. He has performed with Ballet Gulbenkian, Cullberg Ballet, Hofesh Shechter Company, Robyn Live 2016 and The Forsythe Company. Since 2008, Jermaine has been a member of Kidd Pivot. He has staged Crystal Pite’s work for companies such as Cedar Lake Ballet, Carte Blanche, Hessisches StaatsBallett Wiesbaden, Netherlands Dance Theater and Paris Opera Ballet. Jermaine is a 2001 Princess Grace Awardee. He instructs dance for companies, schools and training programs internationally, creates and performs works with partner Spenser Theberge and most recently choreographed a new work(The Seen) for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. 
An artistic and pedagogical authority in Dance, Artemis Gordon was named Artistic Director of the Arts Umbrella Dance program in 1992 after graduating from the National Ballet School’s Teacher Training Program. Since then, Artemis has developed the program to be internationally recognized for producing graduates who are dancing in companies around the world such as Ballet BC, Nederlands Dans Theatre I & II, Batsheva Dance Company, and many others. Artemis has toured the Arts Umbrella Dance Company to Holland, Italy, Japan, New York, and Montreal and fostered collaborations with Nederlands Dans Theatre, Yokohama Ballet, Spellbound Contemporary Dance, Joffrey Ballet School, and L’Ecole supérieure de ballet du Québec. In 2015, Artemis secured the affiliation between Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella, extending the impact of international choreographers in Vancouver and increasing opportunities for young dancers in Vancouver. Artemis won the 2016 YWCA Women of Distinction award in the Arts, Culture, and Design category. Her vision extends beyond dance, preparing students with skills to navigate their lives with discipline, rigour, and innovation.
Originally from Zagreb, Croatia, Mirna Zagar founded Dance Week Festival and the Institute for Movement and Dance, and the pan-European program: Moving Academy for Performing Arts (NL). As the Executive Director of The Dance Centre since 1998, she contributed to the development of Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver’s home for dance. The Governor General of Canada presented Mirna with the commemorative medallion for her contributions to cultural relations between Canada and Croatia (2009). Mirna has served on the Board of the Canadian Dance Alliance and the BC Arts Alliance. Mirna continues to engage with international dance as curator, mentor, and adjudicator.
