Peter Pucci - Choreographer and Movement Director

Peter Pucci creates movement. With extensive credits in theater, ballet, modern dance, and dance education, Peter is one of the most sought-after choreographers working today. Pucci is a Drama Desk Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography and a Lucille Lortel Awardee for Outstanding Choreographer for his work in Queens Boulevard.

Pucci recently received a Special Drama Desk Award for his work on The Orphans’ Home Cycle, under the direction of Michael Wilson, produced by Hartford Stage and at The Signature Theatre. Other recent credits include: Johnny Baseball, directed by Diane Paulus at ART; and the 2010/11 Big Apple Circus -- DANCE ON. Recent dance commissions include Dance Theater of Harlem and The Harvard Ballet.

Upcoming work includes: Roundabout Theatre’s production of Death Takes a Holiday, directed by Doug Hughes and Phaedra, directed by Emily Mann at the McCarter Theater. Additionally, Pucci has been commissioned to create a new ballet for the National Choregoraphic Initiative.

As a Movement Director, Pucci’s work has been seen at major regional and New York theaters in a wide range of productions – from contemporary dramas and musicals to classics from Shakespeare, Chekhov and Molière. His broad-based understanding of movement in performance has carried his creations beyond the stage to film, television, commercials, industrials, fashion shows, ice-skating arenas and opera houses.

As a Choreographer, Pucci is the director of his own company, Peter Pucci Plus, and has choreographed ballets for many of the top dance companies in this country and abroad, including the Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Alberta Ballet and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

As an educator and innovator, Peter has created an audience-accessible piece that has become an event unto itself: Pucci:Sport. For nine action-packed “innings,” a company of talented athlete/dancers turn the games of baseball, frisbee, hockey, basketball and more into a pumped-up entertainment enjoyed by dance lovers and sports fans alike. As a vehicle for outreach, dance education, and just-plain-fun, Pucci:Sport has been performed in venues large and small, from city playgrounds to Madison Square Garden.