About Josie

JOSIE WALSH
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER

A native of Los Angeles and former professional dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Zurich Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Her choreographic career began with the Zurich Opera and moved on to several freelance projects throughout Europe. Upon her return to Los Angeles she integrated this vast background into the commercial world. Choreographic credits include: “YAHOO” national commercial, CBS “The Cleaner”, Walt Disney’s feature of “Tinker Bell“, MGM movie premiere Bullet Proof Monk, CBS sitcom “That’s Life”, Red Bull Formula One Industrial, Pilgrim Rock Opera, “Transmutation” Los Angeles Ballet, “Luminate” Luminario Ballet, “Deconstructed” Harvard Ballet, “Taming of the Shrew” Aeolian Ballet, LA Music Awards, Paul Mitchell Industrial, Queen Mary Live, Focus Fish Flying Circus,Project Angel Food, Zurich Opera, MyoKyo™ full length Renegade Rock Ballet productions: Garden of Reason, Image-Nation, Gone with the Whim, Avalon, & Carnivinyl.

Walsh founded MYOKYO Renegade Rock Ballets in 2000. She is the director, producer and choreographer for the company, creating an eclectic style of inter-disciplinary cooperation. Her company utilizes aerial ballets and acrobatics; circus and martial artistry, contemporary ballet, Hip Hop, live rock, and opera blends. MYOKYO™ dancers go from bare feet to pointe shoes to high flying aerial stunts in the rafters.

MYOKYO™ symbolizes the changing face of the art world. The MYOKYO™ spectacular is not to be mistaken for a dance concert, but is rather an extraordinary display of the uninhibited imagination intersecting the arts. Collaborating with composer Paul Rivera Jr and his industrial rock band, MYOKYO is taken to new heights as Paul rocks the house down at 10ft tall while singing and playing guitar on stilts.

As an artist and teacher, Josie’s primary goal is to invoke, inspire and compel from herself and her audience a more deeply realized meaning. Dance represents the deepest freedom of expression in that it leaves nothing to hide behind… nothing to obscure the naked truth that as a dancer you are the art.