Peter Carpenter

Peter Carpenter is a choreographer and scholar currently completing coursework for a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance Studies at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures.  He received his M.F.A in Dance at UCLA in 2003. He has made choreographic work related to HIV/AIDS since 1993, including the evening-length dance-theater work Bareback Into the Sunset which premiered at Highways Performance Space in 2003 and continues to tour in an excerpted repertory version in Los Angeles.  He has served as the artistic associate for XSIGHT! Performance Group, the resident Choreographer for the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance and, as an independent choreographer for a number of independent theater and dance companies.  As a result of these efforts, he has been awarded Chicago's Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Choreography and Performance, a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding Theater Choreography and numerous grants and commissions for the creation of new work.