JOSHUA PELATZKY

Contemporary Jazz

Joshua Pelatzky, originally from California, received most of his training in Dallas, Texas, beginning with Irish Step dancing then moving into other forms.  At 15, he was asked to join the Bruce Wood Modern Dance Company as an apprentice before becoming a company member the following season.  He continued his training at the Alvin Ailey School, Broadway Theatre Project and Ballet Magnificat.  He has performed in musicals such as The Music Man, Bye Bye Birdie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was offered a role in the first National Tour of CATS at 16.  Joshua has also been seen in industrials for Bob Mackie, J.C. Penney, L’Oreal and the Designers Institute Foundation Fighting AIDS.   He staged an industrial for Diesel in the south of Italy, for which he also performed in.  He made an appearance in Opera Pacific's Aida in Orange County, simultaneously serving as assistant choreographer.

Joshua has received many awards for choreography including Choreographer of the Year and Young Choreographer of the Year.  He has been featured in several showcases internationally including Broadway Underground, Sirens After Dark, Botega, World Dance Movement and Broadway a Tropea.  Joshua was commissioned to set site specific work for art gallery openings as well. He has assisted Michele Assaf in many endeavors, one of the latest being the Learning Channel’s Medical Miracles featuring Phineas Newborn and the Tezero Live @ DVD series, where he was a featured dancer as well.  Joshua has performed pieces of many choreographers, some of the more popular at the moment being Mandy Moore, Desmond Richardson, Wes Veldink, Margie Gilis and Bruno Collinet.  He has taught contemporary and street jazz throughout Japan, Canada, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Israel and the Netherlands. He recently was featured on Style.com/Vogue in their ‘Model Challenge’ series.  Joshua was on faculty at Broadway Dance Center in New York for 5 years and is excited to start teaching throughout the Los Angeles area. 

Contemporary Jazz

Fri  1:00-2:30P