Peter Anastos, Artistic Director

Peter Anastos has choreographed over 100 stage works for the finest national and regional
ballet companies in the United States as well as for modern dance companies, theater, film,
and television, and his ballets are performed worldwide.

Mr Anastos enjoys a longstanding collaboration with Mikhail Baryshnikov and their projects
together include American Ballet Theater's Cinderella, CBS Television's Baryshnikov in
Hollywood (Emmy Award nomination) and the photography book, The Swan Price for Bantam
Books. Mr. Anastos was also invited to create new work for the White Oak Dance Project.

He has choreographed several television specials and two Hollywood films, Addams Family
and Addams Family Values, both for Paramount Pictures. He has directed opera for the
Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center and for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and
was choreographer-in-residence for the Santa Fe Opera and Sundance Theatre Festival.

A writer and historian, Mr. Anastos has published essays about ballet for the New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine, Ballet News, DanceInk and Ballet Review, where he is a member of the Editorial Board. Mr. Anastos directed the Ballet Project at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and has taught ballet technique in New York and throughout the United States.