BLUE PIETA

Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist, theatre director, choreographer, dramaturg, writer and performer based in the UK. Merging practices of ancient storytelling with contemporary media Pieta abstracts human emotions into a poetic universe that transforms suffering: political, gendered, queer, social into contemporary mythologies of spiritual love. Centering the body's vulnerability each work is a ritual bridging different media: performance, painting, writing, and film 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 to invoke a New Surrealism rooted in ancestral, pre-colonial and ecological visions of reality asking the question: What does it mean to be human?

Their performances have been curated by: The Place, Royal Court Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Courtauld Insititute, 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.