Felipe Puletini
Brazilian born and a Member of the International Dance Council -CID/ UNESCO.
Currently the Company Manager for Ballet Rhode Island assisting the directors Kathleen Breen Combes, Yury Yanowsky, and Sarah Lane (School Director).
Throughout his professional career in Brazil and USA, he has performed in repertory classical ballet, musical theater, and Brazilian television. Some highlights are as 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 ensemble in 1st Bibi Ferreira Awards (The Brazilian Tony Awards). On 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 top 10 of the YAGP, Universal Ballet Competition, and CT Classic Scholarship Competition. Collaboration as a choreographer with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra during the concert "Dance for Joy", as well as choreographed for the Mystic River Chorale’s spring concert “Impressions & Reflections”, Mystic Outdoor Festival Performing Arts Stage performing a mix of classical and contemporary, and collaborated with the University of South Carolina - Beaufort during the "Community Nutcracker" as a guest artist performing the role of Sugar Plum Cavalier, as well with the New England Ballet Theatre as a guest artist performing the role of Step Sister in Cinderella.
Was the founder and director of AMA Dance Theatre School & Foundation providing pre-professional training to aspiring artists, with a resident company. ADT students were accepted in various prestigious ballet schools and universities around the world for summer intensives and year-round programs. In collaboration with the public magnet schools he created the “En Avant” project providing opportunity for middle and high school students 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.