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COLLABORATOR PROFILES
ALEJANDRO CERRUDO | CHOREOGRAPHER, EXTREMELY CLOSE
Alejandro Cerrudo is a choreographer and dancer originally from Madrid, Spain. He has performed
with Victor Ullate Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 2, and Hubbard Street Dance
Chicago, where he served as the company’s first resident choreographer from 2008 to 2018. His
choreography has been commissioned by more than 20 professional companies worldwide. He is
the recipient of the Boomerang Fund for Artists Award, the Prince Prize for One Thousand Pieces,
and the USA Donnelley Fellowship. Alejandro created a duet for Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature
and choreographed Daniil Simkin’s Falls the Shadow for the Guggenheim Rotunda project, featuring
original costumes by Dior. His Sleeping Beauty for Ballet Theater Basel was nominated “Production of
the Year” in Switzerland. In 2020, he became Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first resident choreographer,
and in 2021 premiered his independent production It Starts Now at The Joyce Theater. He was
appointed Artistic Director of Charlotte Ballet in 2022.
JUSTIN PECK | CHOREOGRAPHER, PARTITA
Justin Peck is a three-time Tony Award winning choreographer, director, filmmaker, and dancer based
in New York City. He is currently the acting Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor of New York
City Ballet. Peck has created and developed over 50 dance and theater works for stages around the
world, including work for Broadway, the Palais Garnier, the Sydney Opera House, Brooklyn Academy
of Music, and Lincoln Center. He has created extensively for film, most notably choreographing
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021). In 2024, Peck directed and choreographed the original
Broadway musical Illinoise. In 2025, Peck co-choreographed the Broadway musical Buena Vista
Social Club in collaboration with Patricia Delgado. Peck’s honors include the Tony Award for Best
Choreography for Carousel (2018) and Illinoise (2024), the National Arts Award (2018), the Golden
Plate Honor from the Academy of Achievement (2019), the Bessie Award for Rodeo (2015), and the
World Choreography Award for the film West Side Story (2021).
GALA 2026
SAVE
THE
DATE
14 • FALL | EX TREMELY CLOSE • 2025
San Francisco Design Center
Sunday, March 15, 2026
devo@smuinballet.org
Tessa Barbour & Jacopo Calvo | Photo by Keith Sutter
