Currie Pederson

 
Currie began his career as a member of Ballet Theatre now known as ABT.  He was a Tom Hansen Dancer on the Red Skelton Show on CBS for eight years.

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is long list of credits as a performer include the movies “West Side Story”, “Music Man”, “Bye-Bye Birdie”, “Mame” and “How to Succeed in Business”.  He was a resident performer at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas and performed in many television shows such as the Sonny and Cher Show, Bob Hope Specials, the Hollywood Palace Shows, Dinah Shore Chevy Shows and Frank Sinatra Specials.  He also performed on the Academy Award’s Show in the production number for the Best Song of the Year, “Shaft”.

Currie has been associate choreographer and dancer for Tom Hansen on the Tim Conway Comedy Hour Series.  He was associate choreographer and Ballet Master on three area spectaculars: Disney on Parade, Peter Pan and Flintstones on Parade.  His teaching assignments have included the CBS Newcomer Series and his alma mater, The Ballet Theatre School in Denver.  Currie was trained by Francesca and Dimitri Romanoff, former Regisseurs of Ballet Theatre.  He has also studied with such well known teachers as Vladimir Kostenko, Olga Proebajenska, Stanley Holden and Eugene Long.  Currie has been on the dance faculty at Dance Unlimited for the past 15 years.  He is pleased and honored to have been included in the 1996 edition of the “Who’s Who of America’s Teachers”.