Mr. Anastos has created ballets for some of America’s finest national and regionalballet companies, modern dance companies, theater, film and television. He has also choreographed in Europe, Asia and Latin America, was a founding director of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and was the subject of a New Yorker magazine profile by Arlene Croce. A frequent collaborator with Mikhail Baryshnikov, their projects together include American Ballet Theater’s Cinderella. CBS Television's Baryshnikov in Hollywood (for which Mr. Anastos received an Emmy Award nomination), and the photography book The Swan Prince for Bantam Books. Mr. Anastos has the rare honor of receiving two Guggenheim Fellowships in Choreography as well as four Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His theater credits include the Broadway play I Hate Hamlet, the national tour of Chess and Playwrights Horizon’s When She Danced, based on the life of Isadora Duncan. He has choreographed several television specials and two films, Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values, both for Paramount Pictures. As an opera director Mr. Anastos has staged Verdi’s Macbeth for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Bellini’s La Sonnambula for the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center and spent one season as the choreographer for the Santa Fe Opera. A writer and historian, Mr. Anastos published work includes essays on dance for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine, Ballet News, Dance Ink, and Ballet Review, (where he is a member of the editorial board). Mr. Anastos directed the Ballet Project for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, teaching and choreographing for a combined group of American and Russian dancers. He has taught for ballet companies throughout America.