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SCHOOL FACULTY
RESIDENT COACH & CLASSICAL REPERTOIRE COORDINATOR
KIRK PETERSON
Kirk Peterson, presently Associate Artistic Director of Canada’s Alberta Ballet, has had a distinguished career with American Ballet Theatre as Principal Dancer, Artistic Director of ABT II, Ballet Master, and Principal Character Artist and as Master Teaching Associate for the main company, ABT II, The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT and the ABT Summer Intensive. He was the innovative Artistic Director of Hartford Ballet for 5 years, assistant Artistic Director of the Washington Ballet and founding member of San Francisco’s OMO dancers. He has been a principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, English National Ballet, Harkness Ballet, and the National Ballet of Washington and was a founding member of the Harkness Youth Dancers.
He has choreographed over 55 ballets to consistently high acclaim and has worked in diverse theatrical mediums from ballet and opera to Hollywood, Broadway, London’s West End, television, and regional theatre. He was a bronze medalist at the 1972 Varna International Ballet Competition and appeared in the films “Center Stage” and “The Turning Point.” He was resident choreographer of Cincinnati Ballet for 6 years and is an official repetiteur for the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust. A long time associate and friend of Nutmeg Ballet, Kirk danced in Nutmeg’s first performance in 1970 and has since been teacher and mentor to many Nutmeg graduates who have gone on to successful careers in dance.
