BLUE PIETA

Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist, theatre director, choreographer, dramaturg, writer and performer in the UK exploring mysticism, ancestry and archetypes. Merging ancient storytelling practices with contemporary expression, Pieta abstracts human emotions into a poetic universe that transforms suffering [political, queer, gendered] into contemporary mythologies of spiritual love. Centring the body's vulnerability, each work is a ritual bridging different media to create sacred environments for collective healing. Inspired by art history, religion, and science, as well as artists like Carravagio, Pina Bausch and Rumi, Pieta's work foregrounds the epistemologies of the Global South, such as Sufism, to invoke a New Surrealism rooted in pre-colonial and ecological world-views towards a Gesamtkunstwerk.

Their performances have been curated by: The Place, Royal Court Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Courtauld Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, Theatre Peckham and Horse Hospital. They regularly collaborate with T. S Elliot award-winning poet Bhanu Kapil.

They are dramaturg for Akram Khan MBE's production Thikra: Night of Remembering which premiered in Wadi Al Fan (Saudi Arabia) 2025. They were also dramaturg for Nine Songs with artistic direction from Farooq Chaudry OBE and musical direction from Jocelyn Pook.

They studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and the History of Art at Cambridge University. They studied performance at Impulstanz Vienna, Sadlers Wells, Siobhan Davies and the National Youth Theatre.