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As a choreographer, Joshua Bergasse has worked on benefits for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, The Pediatric Aids Foundation, Kids Kicking Cancer and The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. He's choreographed regional productions of Carousel, La Cage Aux Folles, The Most Happy Fella, The Whos’ Tommy, South Pacific, Beehive, Smokey Joes Café, multiple productions of West Side Story (original Jerome Robbins choreography) and the National Tour of Fame. World premieres include the Bomb-itty of Errors (off-broadway), Captain Louie (off-Broadway), Crash Nation (Cherry County Playhouse), Manhattan Magic (Sands Resort in Atlantic City), A Holiday for Hope (Bushnell Theatre), The Rose of Corozon (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), My America (Kravis center for the performing arts.) He has also directed and choreographed revue shows for Princess Cruise line and Regent Seven Seas Cruise line. This year he created a new ballet for Indiana University and has been commissioned for a another new ballet for IU in 2010.

As a performer, Joshua has appeared in the Broadway and/or national touring companies of Movin Out, Hairspray, The Life and West Side Story.

In addition to being a faculty member at the Broadway Dance Center, Joshua is also a guest faculty member at the Joffrey summer program, Manhattan Dance Project, Indiana University, James Madison University, Shenandoah University, and the University of California, Irvine Satellite Program.