In 2016, he moved to Brazil where he started his work with Mirelle Martins, a Brazilian performance artist on BLACK VELVET.

In 2020, Pitts choreographed the play Help,[12] by Claudia Rankine, directed by Taibi Magar, and commissioned at The Shed in New York.

[13] With the collaboration of photographer Alex Apt, Pitts produced a work which portrays human expression through physical emotion inside of very intense climates and natural landscapes.

[16] While performing Black Box, he has constructed a personal, poetic narrative about the search for identity and striving for survival amidst impermanence, while using of spoken words, evocative lighting, and video.

In this performance, he used specific setting and objects such as ladder, a dress, spoken word, and lighting executed by projection as a symbolism to convey a particular meaning.

[20] The New York Times described the performance as "A haunting duet", which shows the “imprint of his unmistakable style — gooey and guttural, rooted in his signature movement system known as Gaga.”[21] Joy Bernard is of the view that "BlackVelvet places a strong emphasis on the black identity of both of its performers.