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This month, Massachusetts’ Barrington Stage Company premieres A Crossing, a tale of migrants coming over the southern U.S. border. It’s being billed as a dance musical, which, for Joshua Bergasse, who co-conceived, directed and choreographed the work, feels right. “It’s a traditional musical in that we have songs, but we’re telling so much of the […]

It was only a matter of time before dance super couple Sara Mearns and Joshua Bergasse did a major project together. After all, the newlyweds first met when Mearns, a New York City Ballet star, was being considered for a part on the TV show “Smash,” which Bergasse was choreographing. They hit it off, but […]

He’s the Emmy-winning, Tony-nominated Joshua Bergasse in the playbill, but just “Josh Bergasse” (pronounced bare-GAHSS) when he affably introduces himself to the 70 people assembled at Broadway Dance Center for his advanced theater class. They know who he is, of course, and it’s the reason they’re there. Reese Snow, BDC’s associate executive director, calls him […]

Bergasse is inspired by classic movie musicals. Photo by Lee Cherry, Courtesy Bergasse. It might seem like I was born to be a choreographer: My mom gave me my first pair of tap shoes when I was 3 years old, and I grew up at her dance school. But it wasn’t until I was a […]

Joshua Bergasse (in black) has been tasked with making moves for techies in Broadway’s Nerds. Here, he rehearses dancers for On the Town. Photo by Jenny Anderson, Courtesy On the Town. From The Book of Mormon‘s tapping evangelists to American Psycho‘s dryly comic serial killer, it seems there’s no topic too obscure for Broadway. Starting March 31, […]

Unexpected collaborations, women-led ballets, superstar choreographers turning their talents to opera and musical theater, singular dancemakers wrestling with issues of labor, environmental justice, and more—here’s what our contributors are looking forward to most as the 2023–24 season gets underway.

Puppets can do things that people can’t, such as move their legs preposterously quickly or fill space 15 or 20 feet above the stage. But they require skilled and agile human bodies to do so, making puppetry and dance a natural pairing.

With Susan Stroman in charge of the new stage musical,­ opening this month at the St. James Theatre, the dancing will be front and center. Like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse before her, she’s a director-choreographer who should really be called a choreographer-director.