Ballet Choreography

•     If I Were A Sushi Roll 2018 (Composer: Nico Muhly and Teitur)

          Smuin Ballet

•        The Nutcracker 2018 (Composer: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky) Royal New

           Zealand Ballet

•     Dances for Lou 2017 (Composer: Lou Harrison) Ballet West

•     4 in the Morning 2016 (Composer: William Walton) Amy

          Seiwert's Imagery

•     Twisted 2 2016 (Composer: Andres Previn, Jacques

          Offenbach, Arnold) BalletMet                                                                 

•     Repeat After Me 2016 (Composer: Johann Paul Von

          Westhoff) Menlo Ballet

•     Without Borders 2016 (Composer: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk

          Road Ensemble)

         Texas Ballet Theater

•     Beautiful Dreamer 2016 (Composer: Stephen Foster)

          Oakland Ballet

•     Stolen Moments 2015 (Composer: Jean-Phillippe

          Rameau) Richmond Ballet

•     Das Ballett 2015 (Composer: Leopold Mozart) Oakland Ballet

•     The Nutcracker 2014 (Composer: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky)

          Grand Rapids Ballet

•     Twisted 2014 (Composer: Benjamin Britten, Gioachino

          Rossini, Giacomo Puccini) BalletMet

•     Tutto Eccetto Il Lavandino (everything but the

          kitchen sink) 2014

         (Composer: Antonio Vivaldi) Smuin Ballet

•     Spaghetti Western 2014 (Composer: Ennio Morricone)

          Louisville Ballet

•     Tears, 2014 (Composer: Steve Reich) San Francisco Ballet

•     In Pieces, 2013 (Composer: Poul Ruders) Colorado Ballet

•     Triptych, 2013 (Composer: John Tavener &

          Alexander Balanescu), Amy Siewert's Imagery

•     Caprice, 2013 Premiere: Cincinnati Ballet

•     The Lottery, 2012 (Composer: Robert Moran) Premiere:

          Ballet West

•     Caprice, 2013 Premiere: Cincinnati Ballet

•     The Lottery, 2012 (Composer: Robert Moran) Premiere:

          Ballet West

•     Chant, 2012 (Composer: Lou Harrison) Premiere:

          Singapore Dance Theatre

•     Incantations, 2012 (Composer:

          Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky) Premiere: Joffrey Ballet

•     Swipe, 2012 (Composer: Gabriel Prokofiev) Premiere:

          Richmond Ballet

•     Tears From Above, 2011 (Composer: Elena

          Kats-Chermin) Premiere: Diablo Ballet

•     Double Stop, 2011 (Composer: Philip Glass) San

          Francisco Ballet

•     Blades of Grass, 2010 (Composer: Tan Dun)

          Premiere: Milwaukee Ballet

•     Still Life, 2010 (Composer: Elena Kats-Chermin)

          Premiere: Scottish Ballet

•     Amor Con Fortuna, 2009 (Composer: Jordi Savali,

          Various) Premiere: Tulsa Ballet

•     The Seasons, 2009 (Composer: Alexander Glazunov)

          Premiere: Pacific Northwest Ballet

•     The Nutcracker, 2009 (Composer: Pyotr Ilyich

          Tchaikovsky) Premiere: Louisville Ballet

•     Ebony Concerto, 2009 (Composer: Igor Stravinsky)

          Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Ibsen's House, 2008 (Composer: Antonín Dvořák)

          Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Suite, 2007 (Composer: George Frederic Handel)

          Premiere: American Repertory Ballet

•     Violin, 2006 (Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber)

          Premiere: Richmond Ballet

•     Songs, 2005 (Composer: Chick Corea) Premiere: Central

          West Ballet

•     Ikon of Eros, 2005 (Composer: John Tavenor)

          Premiere: Washington Ballet

•     Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, 2004 (Composer:

          Béla Bartók) Premiere:

          Boston Ballet

•     Val Caniparoli's A Cinderella Story, 2004 (Composer:

          Richard Rodgers) Premiere:

          Royal Winnipeg Ballet

•     Gustav's Rooster, 2003 (Composer: Hoven Droven)

          Premiere: Tulsa Ballet

•     Vivace, 2003 (Composer: Franz Schubert) Premiere: Tulsa Ballet

•     Untitled, 2003 (Composer:: Dmitri Shostakovich)

          Premiere: Royal Winnipeg Ballet

•     No Other, 2002 (Composer: Richard Rodgers)

          Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Unspoken, 2002 (Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns)

          Premiere: Royal Winnipeg Ballet

•     Misa Criolla, 2002 (Composer: Ariel Ramirez) Premiere:

          Tulsa Ballet

•     Devil's Sonata, 2002 (Composer: Guiseppi

          Tartini) Premiere: Sacramento Ballet

•     boink! 2002 (Composer: Juan Garcia

          Esquivel) Premiere: Lawrence Pech Dance Company

•     The Nutcracker, 2001 (Composer: Pyotr Ilyich

          Tchaikovsky) Premiere: Cincinnati Ballet

•     Torque, 2001 (Composer: Michael Torke) Premiere: 

          Pacific Northwest Ballet

•     Jaybird Lounge, 2001 (Composer Uri Caine)

          Premiere: Pennsylvania Ballet

•     Death of a Moth, 2001 (Composer: Carlos

          Surinach) Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Bird's Nest, 2000 (Composer: Charlie Parker)

          Premiere: Washington Ballet

•     Already Dusk, 2000 (Composer: Johannes

          Brahms) Premiere: Lawrence Pech Dance

         Company

•     Fade to Black, 2000 (Composer: Nina Simone) Premiere:

          L. Feijoo and Y. Possokhov

•     Going for Baroque 1999 (Composer: Antonio Vivaldi)

          Premiere: Tulsa Ballet

•     Attention Please, 1999 (Composer: J.S. Bach)

           Premiere: Richmond Ballet

•     Aquilarco, 1999 (Composer: Giovanni Sollima) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Separations, 1999 (Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich)

          Premiere: Ballet Florida

•     Open Veins, 1998 (Composer: Robert Moran) Premiere:

          Atlanta Ballet

•     Aria, 1998 (Composer: George Frederic Handel) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Book of Alleged Dances, 1998 (Composer: John

          Adams) Premiere: Ballet West

•     Slow, 1998 (Composer: Graham Fitkin) Premiere: San

          Francisco Ballet

•     The Bridge, 1998 (Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich)

          Premiere: Pacific Northwest Ballet

•     Djangology, 1997 (Composer: Django Reinhardt)

          Premiere: Richmond Ballet

•     Ciao, Marcello, 1997 (Composer: Nino Rota) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Prawn-watching, 1996 (Composer: Michael Nyman)

          Premiere: Ballet West

•     Bow Out, 1995 (Composers: David Bedford and Roy

          Powell) Premiere: Richmond Ballet

•     Lambarena, 1995 (Composer: J.S. Bach and Traditional

          African) Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     La Folia, 1994 (Composer: Gregorio Paniagua) Premiere:

          Marin Ballet

•     Tangazzo, 1994 (Composer: Amadeo Roldan) Premiere:

          Marin Ballet

•     Lady of the Camellias, 1994 (Composer: Frédéric

          Chopin) Premiere: Ballet West

•     Seeing Stars, 1993 (Composer: Erno Dohnanyi) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Concerto Grosso, 1992 (Composer: Arcangelo

          Corelli) Premiere: Marin Ballet

•     Pulcinella, 1991 (Composer: Igor Stravinsky) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Tryst, 1991 (Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

          Premiere: Pacific Northwest Ballet

•     Gran Partita, 1990 (Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus

          Mozart) Premiere: Pacific Northwest Ballet

•     In Perpetuum, 1990 (Composer: Arvo Pärt) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Ritual, 1990 (Composer: Alfred Schnittke) Premiere:

          Johann Renvall and Stars of American Ballet

•     A Door Is Ajar, 1990 (Composer: Kronos Quartet)

          Premiere: Ririe Woodbury

•     Between Ourselves, 1989 (Composer: Béla Bartók)

          Premiere: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

•     Kinetic Impressions, 1989 (Composer: Francis

          Poulenc) Premiere: Ballet West

•     Connotations, 1989 (Composer: Benjamin Britten)

          Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     White Mourning, 1989 (Composers: Franz Schubert,

          Gustav Mahler) Premiere: Ballet West

•     Ophelia, 1988 (Composer: Bohuslav Martinu) Premiere:

          Ballet West

•     Narcisse, 1987 (Composer: Claude Debussy) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Hamlet and Ophelia Pas de Deux, 1985 (Composer:

          Bohuslav Martinu) Premiere:

          San Francisco Ballet

•     Aubade, 1985 (Composer: Francis Poulenc) Premiere:

          Israel Ballet

•     Accidental or Abnormal Chromosomal Events,

          1984 (Composer: Al Aguis-Sinerco)

         Premiere: Bay Area Playwrights  Festival                                   

•     Tar Marmalade, 1984 (Composer: Douglas Adams)

          Premiere: Oakland Ballet

•     Chansons de Scheherazade, 1983 (Composer: Maurice

          Ravel) Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Windows, 1983 (Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven)

          Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Loves-Lies-Bleeding, 1982 (Composer: Igor

          Stravinsky) Premiere: San Francisco Ballet

•     Deranged Dances, 1982 (Composer: Charles Ives)

          Premiere: Marin Ballet

•     Six-for-Eight, 1981 (Composer: George Frederic

          Handel) Premiere: Palo Alto Dance Theatre

•     Street Songs, 1980 (Composer: Carl Orff) Premiere:

          Pacific Northwest Ballet

•     Six-for-Eight, 1981 (Composer: George Frederic

          Handel) Premiere: Palo Alto Dance Theatre

•     Concertino, 1979 (Composer: Carlo Ricciotti)

          Premiere: Contemporary Dance Theatre of Tucson

Theater Choreography & Direction

•     A Little Night Music (Music/Lyrics:

          Stephen Sondheim) American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)  

          San Francisco                                                                                            

•     Arcadia (2013) American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)

          San Francisco

•     Tosca Café (2011) Theatre Calgary, Vancouver

          Playhouse

•     The Tosca Project (2010) American

          Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), San Francisco

•     'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2008) A.C.T., San Francisco

•     A Christmas Carol, (2005) A.C.T., San Francisco

•     A Doll's House, (2003) A.C.T., San Francisco

Opera Choreography

•         Two Women (2015) (Music: Marco Tutino) (Adapted on the

           novel "La Ciociara" by Alberta Moravia) San Francisco Opera

•     Andrea Chenier (1995) (Composer: Umberto Giordano)

           Lyric Opera of Chicago

•      Capriccio (1990) (Composer: Richard Strauss) San Francisco

           Opera, Metropolitan

           Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago

•      Manon (1986) (Composer: Jules Massenet) San Francisco Opera

Concert Choreography

•     Mlada (2003) (Music: Rimsky-Korsakov)

          San Francisco Symphony

•     Psycho, The Ballet (1996) (Music: Bernard Herrmann)

          San Francisco Pops

•     Embraceable You (1995) (Music: George Gershwin)

          San Francisco Pops

Film Choreography

•        The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV series) (1 episode)  

          R. Strauss: Capriccio (2011)

•         Great Dancers of our Time In der Hauptrolle 

          Vladimir Malakhov, Lucia Lacarra und

          Kiyoko Kimura (DVD - 2005) Choreography for Lady of the Camellias

Television

•         50th Anniversary Super Bowl commercial, co-choreographed with

           Helgi Tomasson, with dancers from San Francisco Ballet  (2015)

•          The Creation of OMO (1987) in which Val Caniparoli

          discussed the experimental dance company he co-founded

Honors & Awards

•        Recipient,19th annual Hong Kong Dance Awards for Lady

          of the Camellias (2016)  “Outstanding Large Venue Production” and

          “Outstanding Ensemble Performance” for Hong Kong Ballet

•         Recipient, 10 grants for choreography, National Endowment

          for the Arts

•     Recipient, (2001) Isadora Duncan Dance Award 

         for Choreography, Death of a Moth,

         San Francisco Ballet

•     Recipient, (1997 & 1994) awards from the Choo-San Goh &

          H. Robert Magee Foundation

               1997: Open Veins, Atlanta Ballet

               1994: Lambarena, San Francisco Ballet

•     Recipient, (1997) Isadora Duncan Award for

          Sustained Achievement

•     Recipient, (1991-1992) Choreographers Fellowship,

          National Endowment for the Arts

•     Recipient, (1991) Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council

•     Recipient, (1991) Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council

•     Recipient, (1987) Isadora Duncan Award for Aubade,

          Bay Area Dance Coalition

•     Recipient, (1981-1988), Choreographers' Fellowship,

          National Endowment for the Arts

•     Recipient, (1972) Ford Foundation Scholarship