She began her professional dance career in 1988 at Ballet BC, and in 1996 she joined Ballett Frankfurt under the tutelage of William Forsythe.

In 2010, Kidd Pivot became the resident dance company of the German theatre Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, and for the next three years Pite premiered her work in Frankfurt, Germany.

When her arrangement with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm expired she became an Associate Artist with Sadler's Wells' in 2013 and created Polaris (2015) based on Thomas Adès's music,[4] using both the dancers from Kidd Pivot and 60 students from New York University.

[5] Her work Betroffenheit (2015), a piece co-created with collaborator Jonathon Young, premiered at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Pite stated that she began choreographing when she was a toddler,[8] creating choreography to a song called "My Little Red Wagon" at age 3.

[7] Pite danced in her first William Forsythe ballet in 1990 called In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated which was her initial introduction to performing his work.

[13] Pite performed around the world with Ballett Frankfurt in EIDOS : TELOS, The Loss of Small Detail, and Endless House.

Pite was also excited to develop choreography with Forsythe using his improvisational technologies and in 2000 created Excerpts from a Future Work.

[7] She expanded this piece to be featured in the first part of The Stolen Show, also performed by Les Ballet Jazz de Montréal.

[15] Pite formed Kidd Pivot in 2002 as an inter-disciplinary performing arts company based in Vancouver.

[16] In Lost Action, another work created for Kidd Pivot, Pite explored the theme of the disappearance of dance.

[19] In 2011, the National Film Board of Canada recorded a section of this piece and released it as Lost Action: Trace.

[7] While creating for Kidd Pivot, Pite was also commissioned to choreograph pieces for other companies in Canada and around the world.

The dance departed from Pite's usual style of using props and text and focused abstract movement by the eight performers.

As the choreographer, Pite was commended for developing a dramatic story that depicts the physical breakdown of a conductor.

Her longtime composer Owen Belton used her inspiration to create unique music that complemented the storm cloud covered stage.

[7] In the first act a man creates a marionette that is controlled by four dancers dressed as kurokos, traditional Japanese stagehands.

The piece was inspired by Steven Johnson's work Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.

There were also moments of solos and small group pieces that mimicked significant events such as a mating ritual or the coronation of a hive queen.

[33] In 2010, Kidd Pivot signed a two-year deal (which was later extended to three years) to become the resident dance company of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt.

As part of the deal, the company changed their name to Kidd Pivot Frankfort RM and premiered new choreography by Pite at the theatre house.

Pite worried that this decision might take the joy out of choreographing but later said; "I have more knowledge and understanding of certain things, but less ability in my body...

[35] A Picture of You Flying was the final section where Pite used humour to complement the more serious nature of the previous works.

In the second half all of the dancers are dressed in street clothes and Prospero danced a duet or trio with each character, showcasing his relationship with them.

"[37] The Tempest Replica was originally performed in Frankfurt in 2011 as part of Pite's partnership with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.

[42] This newer version of Tempest Replica won Pite the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2015.

[44] Pite won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance[47] for her work on this piece as well as The Tempest Replica, and A Picture of You Falling in 2015.

[52] In 2017, the Royal Opera House commissioned a new piece from Pite called Flight Pattern which premiered in March of that year.

Pite set the piece to the Polish composer Henryk Gorecki's 1976 Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

[55] Pite created a new piece in 2019 called Revisor, collaborating with Jonathon Young and her company Kidd Pivot for the second time.