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. In 2008 Pucci was nominated for the coveted Drama Desk Award for outstanding choreographer and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement, Off-Broadway, Outstanding Choreographer for his work in Queens Boulevard (the musical).

Peter has recently completed work on the Drama Desk Award winning, Orphans’ Home Cycle, nine newly adapted plays by Horton Foote, under the direction of Michael Wilson, produced by Hartford Stage and Off Broadway's The Signature Theatre. Peter is also in production on the new musical, Johnny Baseball, directed by Diane Paulus, which will premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Boston in June, 2010. In addition, he has begun work on the 2010/11 Big Apple Circus, directed by Eric Michael Gillet. Recent dance commissions include Episode for Dance Theater of Harlem.

As a Movement Director, Peter’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, Peter is the director of his own company, Peter Pucci Plus. The company performs frequently in New York, counting among its many performances six appearances at the Joyce Theater, combined with extensive tours throughout the U.S. and Europe. Peter has also choreographed ballets commissioned by 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.