Darrell Grand Moultrie created the “Naughty Girl” dance Beyoncé performed in presenting the song on tour.

He also has collaborated with tap dance great Savion Glover.

And he’s choreographed works on Broadway for renowned director Diane Paulus.

Now this highly regarded creative force is preparing to unveil a new work he’s developed for the Richmond Ballet.

Twelve dancers from the Richmond Ballet company are scheduled to premiere his new work, “iNVERSION,” later this month.

A former public housing resident whose life was transformed by the arts, Mr. Moultrie, 36, said his new ballet “tells what it’s like to be a dancer.”

The dancers will perform as classical music plays, he said. As they dance, interviews of them talking about their lives and about the adversity they’ve overcome will be shown on a big screen.

“For the males, it could be about bullying,” Mr. Moultrie said, “of how men are teased for wearing leotards or being in ballet,” which he experienced growing up in Harlem.

“For females, it could be their relationship with the mirror,” he added, “of how, as they grow older, they might look more and more into the mirror at themselves.”

The choreographer said he’s thrilled to be working with the Richmond Ballet a second time.

“The talent here is very good, and they’re all nice people,” he said.

The feeling is mutual. “He’s been a thorough delight,” said Malcolm Burn, a New Zealander who serves as the company’s ballet master and artistic associate.

“He’s very inspiring and very creative,” he added. “We love him.”

This is the second work Mr. Moultrie has created for the Richmond Ballet. The first was a short Latin percussion piece, “Saideira,” he developed for the company’s 2013 New Works Festival.

The ballet invited him back in May to begin work on his latest creation.

Three African-Americans are among the 12 dancers who will appear in the new work.

Mr. Moultrie said he created “iNVERSION” and his other dance pieces “completely out my head,” without writing it in advance.

“It’s easier to do that for me,” he said. “Everyone has a different method.”

Mr. Moultrie, raised by a single mother in a public housing high-rise in New York, said his third-grade teacher spotted his talent and introduced him to the arts.

“She took me to musicals and Broadway shows,” he said, and introduced him to the world of dance. He said he began dreaming of joining that world after being inspired by the African-American dancers in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Dance Theater of Harlem.

He acted and sang in elementary and secondary school, but waited until his junior year in high school to dance ballet and other works because he knew other children would make fun of him.

He went on to win admission to the highly selective Laguardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and later to the Julliard School of music, dance and drama. “I was so focused because I loved what I was doing,” he said.

After earning his Julliard degree, he embarked on a journey that has carried him around the world. He is scheduled to choreograph an opera in Madrid, Spain, after completing the ballet in Richmond.

He called working with Beyoncé among his career highlights. He first choreographed a dance for her show at Super Bowl XLVII, “but it was cut out of the show.”

He said she later asked him to choreograph her performance of the song, “Naughty Girl,” for her “Mrs. Carter Show” tour in 2013. He saw her perform the piece in Dallas and said, “It came out great.”

“It was more burlesque than ballet,” because the piece required Beyoncé and other dancers to use a pole as a prop, he said.

Mr. Moultrie described the performer as “very nice, very quiet and very appreciative of everybody.”

He wishes more black youths would consider the performing arts and welcomes the opportunity to be a role model and inspiration.

“I do it because of the people who were so good to me along the way,” he said. “It made me see that there are a lot of good people in the world.

“I want to help pass that along to others.”