PETER

CHU

Choreographer

Director

Educator

Upcoming events

  • STEPS on Broadway

    WORKSHOP CLASS:
    THU, May 30

    8:00-10:00 PM


    SPOTLIGHT SERIES
    Adv/Int Contemporary

    📍Steps on Broadway
    🇺🇸New York City, U.S.A.

    STEPS’ Spotlight Series is In-Studio with limited spaces as well as on-line.
    All class times are EST.

    Minimum age for Spotlight classes is 15.

    To take class virtually:
    VIRTUAL SPOTLIGHT

    To attend in-person, click below.

  • Moving Constructs

    PERFORMANCE:
    SAT, June 22
    07:30 PM


    ORSOLINA28 | Focus on Creation

    📍
    OPEN AIR STAGE
    🇮🇹Moncalvo, Italy

    Choreographer:
    Peter Chu

    Dancers:
    Peter Chu
    Miriam Gittens
    Tulia Marshall
    Madison Pineda Bender
    Jie-Hung Connie Shiau
    Eleanor Simmons
    Roger Van der Poel

    This performance is offered to the public by the Osolina28 Art Foundation.
    One can attend this performance for FREE but a reservation must be made to secure one’s spot.
    At an additional cost (a separate reservation must be made), one can join and enjoy the del ious after-show dinner at the Orsolina28 Restaurant Serra deli Limoni.

  • Shift

    PERFORMANCE:
    WED, June 26
    08:15 PM


    📍
    Munttheater
    🇳🇱
    Weert, Netherlands

    The performance comprises of two works by Peter Chu, take-off and Conscious Shift.

    It is approximately 1hr long, including a 20 minutes break.

    Tickets include a free drink during the break.

    Dancers: Peter Chu & Roger Van der Poel

    In the performance "take-off" and "Conscious Shift," two bodies from different cultures discover how to communicate through breath, sensation and repetition. Is there a point where the bodies find silence or perhaps drift? There is magic in the beauty of the desire to surrender! Both choreographies were conceived by choreographer Peter Chu and will be performed by himself and Portuguese-Dutch award-winning dancer Roger Van der Poel.


    The performance is approximately 1hr long and includes a 20 minutes break between the two works.
    Tickets include a free drink during the break.

  • Shift

    PERFORMANCE:
    TUE, July 2
    07:30 PM


    📍Theater im Pfalzbau
    🇩🇪Ludwigshafen, Germany

    The performance comprises of two works by Peter Chu, take-off and Conscious Shift.

    It is approximately 1hr long, including a 20 minutes break.

    Dancers: Peter Chu & Roger Van der Poel

    The American choreographer Peter Chu has a background in artistic gymnastics, loves Asian martial arts and was a show dancer with Celine Dion after graduating from the Juilliard School in New York. Since 2017, he has been choreographing for his Las Vegas-based group chuthis and other companies, as well as for Cirque du Soleil. He loves to indulge in new experiences and finds this feeling "magical".

    Chu's dance language is acrobatic and powerful, incorporates classical and street dance influences and abruptly alternates between maximum tension and letting go of the body, which then flows onto the floor like water and can be dragged away without resistance. Sometimes there are also dynamic chain reactions in which the momentum of the movement is passed from dancer to dancer.

    Peter Chu is committed to artistic change, from which he draws his creativity. He loves it when energy and vitality are in a cycle, loves it when two bodies communicate with each other through breath and feeling. When they allow themselves to drift at a certain point and surrender to the movement, the dance becomes magic.