Derek Piquette

Derek Piquette is a dancer, choreographer, director and teacher. He has been seen in many different Film and Television Series such as AppleTV+ Schmigadoon Season 1 &2,, Netflix’s Julie and the Phantoms, Netflix's Work It, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, NBC's World of Dance, Netflix's Scaredy Cats and Amazon's The Boys. Derek has also traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Spain, China and Singapore with Cirque Du Soleil as the main character of the show Kooza for over two years.

Derek's multiple talents and achievements have led him to be a teacher, adjudicator and choreographer to students all over the world as well as a choreographer in TV, Film and Live Stage. Derek had the opportunity to choreograph in the Jennifer Lopez It's My Party Tour, The Next Step Tour, Disney's Backstage, Family Channel's The Next Step and Netflix’s Work It. Derek has performed in the ensemble for Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes for two seasons. In 2022, Derek had the opportunity to choreograph for New York Fashion Week. Later that year, Derek was brought on by Universal Music Canada to creative direct and choreograph for multi-platinum recording artist Rêve. Derek choreographed and creative directed Reve’s Nationwide Tour and music videos including “Tongue” & “Whitney”. One of Derek’s biggest accolades in his career so far is being the assistant choreographer to Tony Award winning choreographer Chris Gattelli for “With All Of Your Heart” from Schmigadoon featuring Oscar Award winner, Ariana Debose, which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography For Scripted Programming.