Philip Pegler was born in Westow, England, and began his study of Classical Ballet with his mother at the age of five. At 11, Philip was accepted into the Bush-Davies School in Sussex, where he trained until the School’s closure in 1989. Following training at The Vaganova Choreographic Institute (The Kirov Academy) in Russia, he joined the Legat School of Russian Ballet before being awarded an international scholarship to study at The Harid Conservatory in Florida.
            In 1991, Philip returned to England and was offered a place at The Royal Ballet School in London. He joined the School’s Teachers Training Course in 1992 and graduated in 1995 as Head Student.
            Although he danced briefly with the Columbia City Ballet in South Carolina, Philip has dedicated his career to the training of students in Classical Ballet. In 1996 he assumed the position of Artistic Director of the South Carolina Dance Theatre before joining the Calvert-Brodie School as Director in 1998. In 2002, Philip was appointed, for one year, to the position of Assistant Professor in the College of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida, teaching Classical Ballet and lecturing in Dance History.
            Since 2003, Philip has worked primarily as a freelance Classical Ballet teacher, working with pre-professional dancers and student-teachers and has given many lectures and seminars on the anatomical process in Classical Ballet technique. In 2005, Philip was appointed to the Board of Vocational Examiners of the Royal Academy of Dance and has examined students throughout the United States, Canada, Brasil, Italy and the United Kingdom.