Peter Sabasino, a native of Philadelphia, PA, began his dance training
at the age of four at a local dance studio. It was there, that he started out
learning Ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop and Tap but found that Tap and Hip-Hop
were his home. At the age of fourteen, he was accepted into the High-school
for Creative And Performing Arts as a dance major. It was there he expanded
his repertoire by adding Modern, African, Ballroom, and Broadway to his
belt. It was here in high-school that he discovered his third love….Broadway
Jazz.
At the start of his senior year, Peter graduated his dance school and
began traveling back and forth between Philadelphia and New York to study
at Broadway Dance Center, and Steps On Broadway where he had the
opportunity to train under such greats as Gregory Hines, Savion Glover,
Barbara Duffy, Tyce Diorio, Rhapsody James, and Brian Green, to name a
few.
After graduating high-school, Peter continued his training at Indiana
University of Pa where he studied with Joan Van Dyke, the head of the
Ballet program at the Governor’s School of the Arts. After college Peter was
blessed with what he considers his BIGGEST achievement and landed a spot
as a Top 16 Finalist on Fox Television’s hit reality show, “So You Think You
Can Dance” season 6 being the last of three Tap dancers to be eliminated.
It
was there that Peter believes his views and philosophies of dance were
molded by the many amazing choreographers and dancers he was blessed to
work with. Peter also recently landed a spot as a principal dancer in a
commercial for Walt Disney World. More recently, Peter choreographed an
episode of the television show “The Right Stuff” on the National Geographic
channel, which is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter is currently
the host/emcee and sometimes judges for Shake The Ground dance
competition as well as the Founder/Director of the newly formed Orlando
Tap Company which is based out of Orlando, Fl. Peter travels the world
with various competitions and conventions, teaching, choreographing and
performing but finds his TRUE LOVE is in teaching inspiring, and instilling
the knowledge he has gained throughout his career with the up and coming
dancers of tomorrow.
