Peter Pucci Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Founder, Director and Choreographer Peter Pucci creates movement across many platforms. With extensive credits as a Choreographer and Movement Director in theater, ballet, modern dance, film and dance education, he has been tapped by companies as prestigious and diverse as the Jofferey Ballet in Chicago and the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel, the Tonight Show and the Broadway stage, the Baltimore Public Schools and Juilliard School of Drama. One of the most experienced choreographers working today, Peter has received a Drama Desk Award and a Lucille Lortel Award.He has also worked with an eclectic mix of professional and non-professional movers, from an Olympic skater to clowns and acrobats in the Big Apple Circus, from the puppet bear in the Big Blue House to a group of CEOs with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) of Greenwich, from singers at Jazz at Lincoln Center to basketball players for a halftime show at Madison Square Garden.Peter refers to his way of working as “ability appropriate movement for any setting.” He works exceptionally well with all skill levels, across all generations – both those with movement experience and those with no movement training at all. He is able to capitalize on each person’s innate natural movement quality to achieve the task at hand.A long-time teacher at over a dozen universities and colleges, including the Juilliard School of Drama and the Yale School of Drama Directing Program, Peter knows how to make physical movement fun and enriching, inviting all skill levels to contribute equally.

Greater New York City Area

Peter Pucci is a Lucille Lortel Award winner for Outstanding choreography for Queens Boulevard (the musical). Peter also received a Drama Desk Award for his work on The Orphans' Home Cycle. Peter was a principle dancer and rehearsal director with Pilobolus Dance Theatre for nine years and toured extensively around the world, before forming his own company, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers.Peter has choreographed many commissioned works for The Joffrey Ballet; other commissions include Ballet Arizona, Ballet Hispanico, Colorado Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, Pucci: Sport for the New Mexico Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem and Dream On By with music by Paul Simon for the State Street Ballet in California. He has also served as a chorographer/movement director for many theatrical productions. Recent productions include Curse of the Starving Class, directed by Terry Kinney at the Signature Theatre, NYC and Kurt Elling's The Big Blind at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Age of Innocence directed by Doug Hughes at Hartford Stage and the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, Peter is a Guest Moderator and Programmer for the Dance On Film Series at Jacob Burns Film Center and has been a Guest Choreographer/Movement Director at the Juilliard School of Drama. Learn More at http://www.pucciplus.com/