Hey, I’m Felipe Puletini a performer, dance teacher, and choreographer.
Brazilian-born and a Member of the International Dance Council - CID/ UNESCO.
Degree of Vocational Higher Education in Fine Arts (Performing Arts Major), Certified Teacher in Giordano Technique (Certificate Program with Nan Giordano), American Ballet Theatre® National Curriculum Training (Pre-Primary through Level 6), Olympic Preparation for Dancers, and PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique).
Current the Head of Children’s Division & Company Manager for Ballet RI coordinating the school and being the Children’s Cast Director for Yuri Yanowsky’s The Nutcracker and Cinderella, as well assisting the directors Kathleen Breen Combes organizing productions, scheduling, communications, cultivation of donors, and tour management.
Throughout his professional career in Brazil and USA, he has performed in repertory classical ballet, musical theater, and Brazilian television. Some highlights are as a soloist in many ballets like Cinderella, Swan Lake, Paquita, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote (Cuban version), and La Fille Mal Guardée (Cuban version), I Gotcha! (Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb), The Hunchback Of Notre Dame as Clopin, The Lion King as Pumba, The Little Mermaid as Scuttle, and the ensemble in 1st Bibi Ferreira Awards (The Brazilian Tony Awards). His repertory includes contemporary works by Rodney Rivera, Sergei Vanaev, Alejandro Ulloa, Lauren Edson, Gabrielle Lamb, Catherine Fellows, Pascal Rekoert, Nan Giordano.
Guest Teaching Artist for CCSU (Central Connecticut State University - Dance Education), and coach/choreographer for many schools in New England, Connecticut, preparing dancers for important ballet competitions having his students in the top 10 of the YAGP, Universal Ballet Competition, and CT Classic Scholarship Competition.
Collaboration as a choreographer with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra for De Falla: La Vida Breve conducted by Kalena Bovell during the concert "Dance for Joy" in 2019, in the Mystic River Chorale’s spring concert “Impressions & Reflections” in 2022, and in the Mystic Outdoor Festival Performing Arts Stage from 2021 to 2023. Collaborated with the University of South Carolina - Beaufort during the "Community Nutcracker" as a guest choreographer and artist performing the role of Sugar Plum Cavalier in 2019, as well with the New England Ballet Theatre of CT as a guest artist performing the role of Step Sister in Cinderella in 2023. In 2024 was invited by the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and conductor Adrian Sylveen, to be featured in their “Immigrant Stories in Music” program, where he is commissioning a new choreography and score in collaboration with an award-winning Brazilian composer.
“ You are what you
want to be…”
BELIEVE!
Was the founder and director of AMA Dance Theatre School & Foundation providing pre-professional training to aspiring artists, with a resident company. Under my guidance students were accepted into various prestigious ballet schools and universities worldwide for summer intensives and year-round programs such as Royal Ballet School, Boston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, School of the American Ballet, Alvin Ailey School, Ballet RI, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Pittsburg Ballet School, North Carolina University of the Arts (High School Program), Hartt School - Dance Division (BFA in Dance), Point Park University (BFA in Dance). In collaboration with the public magnet schools, he created the “En Avant” project providing opportunity for middle and high school students to continue their dance education with full scholarships.
As a director of ADT Felipe produced 3 full concerts: Divertissements in 2021, Nós Vós Eles (premier of the professional company), and Sleeping Beauty in 2023.
As a dance photographer, I like to show each dancer's artistry, individuality, passion, and precision in my photographs. With Dance in Motion Photography and all my experience coaching dance, we will guide you in making sure you express your best self through my lenses and create incredible art in a portrait!