Mikhail Baryshnikov invited Lawrence Pech to join American Ballet Theater in 1980. For the next six years, Mr. Pech worked with such choreographers as George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Anthony Tudor, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins (touring to the Spoleto, Italy Festival, 1982), Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Jiri Kylian, Carol Armitage, David Gordon, Natalia Makarova, Eric Bruhn, Mark Morris, and others. He danced with such greats as Mr. Baryshnikov, Ms. Makarova, Ivan Nagy, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Harvey, Martine Van Hamel, Kevin McKenzie, and others. He has made numerous television appearances with ABT in "Live from Lincoln Center", and figured prominently with Mr. Baryshnikov in the 1983 BBC movie, Dancer and the Dance.

In 1986, Helgi Tomasson invited Mr. Pech to join the San Francisco Ballet, and in 1989 he was promoted to Principal Dancer, working with the likes of David Bintley, William Forsythe, James Kudelka, Mark Morris, and others. In 1991, Mr. Pech was the subject of a PBS/KQED special entitled Blue Lair, a ballet about his victory over cancer, which was awarded a 1991 Emmy for Best Choreography. He also garnered the Bay Area Theater Critics’ Circle Award for Best Choreography and Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Oklahoma!, Mountain Play, 1991), the Dean Goodman Award for Best Choreography (Jesus Christ Superstar, Spreckles), and numerous other awards and scholarships.

Mr. Pech is Founding Artistic Director of Diablo Ballet, Walnut Creek, CA (1992-95).

Since it’s inaugural performances in April 1996, the Lawrence Pech Dance Company (LPDC) has performed to sold-out houses at Theater Artaud, San Francisco, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). LPDC began their residency at YBCA in November 1998, and inaugurated the annual “Valley of the Moon Festival of the Performing Arts” in Sonoma, CA in August 1999.

Mr. Pech has been the Ballet Master and Resident Choreographer for the San Francisco Opera since 1997. Mr. Pech returned to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to finish his Composition degree (BM) in 2005, graduating with honors.

To date, Mr. Pech has choreographed over 55 ballets, 45 musicals, 42 operas, and numerous self-produced evenings of original music, dance and theater.