Joshua Bergasse is making his HGO debut reproducing Jerome Robbins’s original choreography for West Side Story. On Broadway, he has choreographed the revival of On the Town, for which he received an Astaire Award and was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Additional Broadway choreography credits include the revival of Gigi and the debut of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Among his Off-Broadway works are Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, Bomb-Itty of Errors, and Captain Louie. Bergasse’s other choreography credits include West Side Story at the Stratford Festival; Little Me, and It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman! at City Center Encores!; Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage Co.; and Guys and Dolls and The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall. Bergasse choreographed multiple segments for television, including numbers in So You Think You Can Dance and Sinatra: A Voice for a Century on PBS. His choreography has been featured on Monsterland on Hulu, Jessica Jones for Netflix, the feature film Grown Ups 2 with Adam Sandler, and the PBS special A Capitol Fourth. He won an Emmy Award for his choreography on NBC’s musical drama SMASH, and received Drama Desk, Astaire, and Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations for his choreography of Cagney Off-Broadway. A member of the Broadway Dance Center faculty since 1998, he also serves as artistic director for the center’s Musical Theater Performance Project.
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