Pointe Magazine, 12 Standout Performances of 2023:
Helen Pickett’s, The Crucible … stunned audiences at Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center … it is a must-see ballet that will awaken the senses. —Katherine Beard
Herald Angel Award for Choreography
UK Theatre Awards – Won
Scottish Ballet: Achievement in Dance
‘The world premiere of Helen Pickett’s outstanding dance-theatre
adaptation of The Crucible.’
National Dance Awards Critics Circle
The Crucible, Scottish Ballet, has 3 Shortlisted Nominations:
Best Classical Choreography, Helen Pickett
Outstanding Creative Contribution, Peter Salem (Composer)
Outstanding Male Classical Performance, Nicholas Shoesmith as John Proctor
★★★★★ ‘Helen Pickett seals her reputation as a masterful creator of narrative ballet. Unmissable,’ The Review Hub
★★★★ ‘bewitchingly good… Scottish Ballet has a hit on its hands’, The Times
★★★★ ‘burns with white hot intensity… a riveting gift of a show’, The Guardian
★★★★★ ‘captures the claustrophobia and darkness of a community lost inside itself’, The Scotsman
★★★★★ ‘cuts to the very bone… a triumph’, The Herald
★★★★★ ‘sensual and arresting… storytelling ballet at its best’ ,The List
★★★★★ ‘triumphant and elemental’, The Stage
★★★★★ ‘Scottish Ballet has a major critical hit on their hands’ Dance Tabs, Bruce Marriot
Photo: Juan Carlos Osma
Helen Pickett
“Pickett is a contemporary ballet choreographer of substance, with deep convictions, an effervescent sense of humour and a wide-ranging intellect.”
– Dance International
“Helen Pickett seals her reputation as a masterful creator of narrative ballet”
– The Review Hub
Helen Pickett is a choreographer with a rich diversity of experience. She danced with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt for eleven years, and performed with the avant-garde Wooster Group theater company for five non-consecutive years. Helen choreographs for stage and film. She creates new full length narratives based on plays and books, such as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real. In the past 17 years she has created 60 works on companies across the U.S. and Europe, Scotland and Australia.
Tobias Round
Managing Director and Producer
info@theroundcompany.com
FEMALE CHOREOGRAPHERS
BIG ROUND TABLE
Founder and Creator, Helen Pickett
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Helen Pickett’s Talk Show
On YouTube
83 Remarkable Artists Conversations
Intimate Conversations with extraordinary Dance and Theater Artists about Reimagining Creativity & Supporting and Building Community.
The Air Before Me
Conceived and Choreographed by Helen Pickett
Performed by John Lam
Directed and Edited by Shaun Clarke
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Featuring Boston Ballet principal dancer John Lam. The Air Before Me connects ethereal space and light with human agency in a continual affirmation of the present’s power.
45th Annual Mid America Emmy Award Nominees
Category: Arts/Entertainment – Short Form Content (up to 10 minutes)
Hurly Burly from KC Performs, KCPT
Brad Austin, John McGrath
(Hurly Burly Choreography: Helen Pickett)
Dancers: Lia Cirio and Paul Craig
Dancer: My’Kal Stromile
Home Studies Triptych
Dance for Film Series
Creating Relationships: Choreographer Helen Pickett Builds Bonds Onstage and Off
November 16, 2018, Cynthia Bond Perry
Dance International
Honorary Doctorate Degree
University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 2016
Testimonials
Helen Pickett has wrought sheer magic here,… and has created a major work that I predict will not only last, but become a legend in the dance world.
…It’s a different time now and we’re seeing an explosion of vibrant experimentation from Crystal Pite, Helen Pickett, Akram Khan, and many more.
I think this ballet will be an instant success, and is ultimately destined to become one of the classic works in the repertoires of major companies.
Ballet, like modern or contemporary dance, is experimental, too. And what I was seeing was Pickett’s experiment with time, space, form, color, sound, etc., within the context of classical ballet.