Joseph Gatti

Joseph Gatti

Former Cincinnati Ballet Principal Dancer and Presently a Principal Dancer with Corella Ballet.

Born in Warwick,New York and raised in Orlando,Florida.Mr.Gatti began dancing at age 10 at the Orlando Ballet School in Florida and continued his training with Vadim Fedotov and Irina Depler. Joseph danced with Orlando Ballet as an apprentice 2001-2003 under the direction of Fernando Bujones. In 2003 he was coached by Orlando Molina for the Youth American Grand Prix Ballet Competition in New York were he was awarded the Gold Medal and a Scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London.Upon graduating with honors he received the 2004 Dame Ruth Railton Award for Excellence in Dance. After attending the 2003 American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive he joined the American Ballet Theater Studio Company for the 2004-2005 season. In 2005 he became the first American Male Dancer to win the prestigious Gold Medal at the New York International Ballet Competition. Joseph was nominated as best male dancer for the 2006 Benois de la Danse in Moscow,Russia. In 2006 he became a Bronze Medalist at the USA International Ballet Competition and a Silver Medalist at the Seoul International Ballet Competition in Korea. He was also chosen to be featured in a video entitled “The Male Ballet Dancer” presented by master teacher Finis Jhung. In 2007 Joseph was coached by Magaly Suarez for the first World Ballet Competition in Orlando,Florida,were he received the Gold Medal.

Some of his Principal roles include the Prince in Val Caniparoli’s“The Nutcracker”,Kirk Peterson’s “Sleeping Beauty” and Peter Stark’s “Cinderella”. Albrecth and peasant pas de deux in “Giselle”,Romeo in Victoria Morgan’s “Romeo and Juliet”,Solor,Bronze Idol and lead Fakir in Natalia Makarova’s “La Bayadere”,Siegfried and Benno in “Swan Lake”,Colas in Jose Pares “La Fille Mal Gardee” and many other pas de deux from the classical repertoire like, “Don Quixote”,”Satanella”,”Le Corsaire”,”Black Swan”.etc...he have also dance Balanchine ballets like “Tchaikovsky pas de deux”,”Tarantella”and El Capital in “Stars and Stripes”, Anton Dolin’s “Variation for Four”,Arthur Saint-Leon “La Vivandiere” and other ballets by important choreographers like: Stephen Mill,Twayla Tharp,Jamal Story, Jerome Robbins, Jorma Elo,Stanton  Welch,Val Caniparoli, Angel Corella, Clark Tippet and others.

Joseph have been invited to perform as a Principal Guest Artist with Ballet Concerto de Puerto Rico,Western Ballet,Ballet Municipal de Lima,Peru,The Miami international Ballet Festival,the Baltic Ballet Festival,The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami,Balletto di l’Arena di Verona,NBA

Ballet in Japan and many others importants stages around the world.