Pete Hillier
Encyclopedia
Pete Hillier is a dancer born in Cambridge
, England.
He trained at the McKenzie School of Speech and Drama and the Bodywork Dance Studios, both in Cambridge.
on the BAFTA award-winning BBC
children's dance programme Boogie Beebies
.
As well as presenting, he dances, teaches dance, sings, does stand-up comedy, and is a choreographer and director. He has choreographed fashion and exhibition shows.
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, England.
He trained at the McKenzie School of Speech and Drama and the Bodywork Dance Studios, both in Cambridge.
Career
Hillier is best known for being a presenterPresenter
A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...
on the BAFTA award-winning BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
children's dance programme Boogie Beebies
Boogie Beebies
Boogie Beebies is a UK children's television programme which is produced and broadcast by the BBC. It is aired on CBeebies...
.
As well as presenting, he dances, teaches dance, sings, does stand-up comedy, and is a choreographer and director. He has choreographed fashion and exhibition shows.
Theatre
- Dec 09 - Jan 10: Snow White pantomime at The Grand Theatre, Swansea, playing Muddles.
- 2008-9: Boogie Pete Live (UK tour)
- 2008: Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime at Darlington Civic Theatre playing Jack Trot.
- 2007-2008: Aladdin Pantomime at Pavilion Theatre, RhylRhylRhyl is a seaside resort town and community situated on the north east coast of Wales, in the county of Denbighshire , at the mouth of the River Clwyd . To the west is the suburb of Kinmel Bay, with the resort of Towyn further west, Prestatyn to the east and Rhuddlan to the south...
- Director, Wishee Washee - 2007: Boogie NightsBoogie NightsBoogie Nights is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, the script focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, and chronicles his rise and fall from the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s...
theatre tour with Qdos Productions - Terry - 2004-2005: Saturday Night FeverSaturday Night Fever (musical)This is an article about the stage musical. For the article on the 1977 film, see Saturday Night FeverSaturday Night Fever is a musical with a book by Nan Knighton and music and lyrics by the Bee Gees.Based on Nik Cohn's 1975 New York Magazine article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" and...
at Apollo Victoria TheatreApollo Victoria TheatreThe Apollo Victoria Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Wilton Road near Victoria station in the City of Westminster. Opened as a cinema and variety theatre, the Apollo Victoria became a venue for musical theatre, beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running...
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- Gus - 2001-2002: Kiss Me, KateKiss Me, KateKiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.Kiss...
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, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...