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Title

Guest Choreographer

Bio

Kirk Peterson had a distinguished career for 17 years with American Ballet Theatre as principal dancer, choreographer, Artistic Director of ABTII, Ballet Master, Principal Character Artist and as Master Teaching Associate.  Peterson was also Artistic Director of the Hartford Ballet for five years.  As a choreographer, Peterson has created over 50 ballets including new versions of The Firebird and Le Sacre du Printemps.  His choreography has been seen with San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Washington Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, BalletMet, San Francisco Opera and The Royal Ballet School. He is a specialist in re-staging the full-length classical repertoire such as Giselle, Don Quixote and The Sleeping Beauty.  He was nominated for the prestigeous Prix Benois de la Danse in Moscow for Othello, created for Alberta Ballet.  Peterson was resident choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet for six years and he is also a repetiteur for the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust.  ARB restaged Peterson's Glazunov Variations for the 2010-2011 Season and The Eyes That Gently Touch for the 2011-2012 Season.

History

Member for

30 weeks 4 days