Bio

  • Josie Walsh

    Director / Choreographer

    Josie WalshA native of Los Angeles and former professional dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Zurich Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Josie’s 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: “Underground Comedy” feature film, “YAHOO” national commercial, UTV logo Identity, A&E “The Cleaner”, Walt Disney’s feature of “Tinker Bell“, Starz “Torchwood”, MGM movie premiere Bullet Proof Monk, CBS sitcom “That’s Life”, Red Bull Formula One Industrial, Pilgrim Rock Opera, Asia Entertainment, LA Music Awards, Paul Mitchell Industrial, Queen Mary Live, Focus Fish Flying Circus, Project Angel Food, Zurich Opera, Contemporary Ballet Commissions: “Secret Garden” (full length) State Street Ballet, “Transmutation” Los Angeles Ballet’s New Wave LA, “Evenings” State Street Ballet, “Luminate” Luminario Ballet, “Deconstructed” Harvard Ballet, “Taming of the Shrew” Aeolian Ballet, “Found” & “Internal Affairs” Celebrate Dance, “Artemis” Santa Monica College, MyoKyo™ full length Renegade Rock Ballet productions: Garden of Reason, Image-Nation, Gone with the Whim, Avalon and Carnivinyl.


    Walsh founded MYOKYO Renegade Rock Ballets in 2000. She is the director,choreographer and producer for the company, creating an eclectic style of inter-disciplinary cooperation. Her company utilizes aerial ballets and acrobatics; circus and martial artistry, contemporary ballet, burlesque, 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. –  Josie Walsh

    Josie was named “25 to watch” by Dance Magazine.

    TRAINING:
    School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Westside Ballet Academy.

    MYOKYO™ – Renegade Rock Ballets

    MYOKYO™ Renegade Rock Ballets are riveting, cutting edge, sexy and sophisticated entertainment like no other. Watch as barriers dissolve between audience and performers as we go on a vision quest for wisdom, understanding and freedom through a world of colliding opposites. Wrought with conspiracy, propaganda and delusions, we venture deep into a rigorous maze created by the 10ft tall, stilt walking, rock singing, supreme puppet master himself. Pulling the strings one by one, he weaves a most sinister tale uniquely and seductively through music, dance, high- flying aerialists, martial artists, ballerinas and hip hop dancers. The pulsating sonic backdrop for the supreme puppet master’s creation is by the original and highly provocative rock band KYO™.

    MYOKYO™ shamelessly rocks the house down, redefining the theater experience and creating a stage phenomenon and truly visceral experience!

    MYOKYO™ was founded in 2000 by Josie Walsh under which she directed, choreographed and produced the critically acclaimed shows Garden of Reason, Gone with the Whim, Avalon, Image-Nation and Carnivinyl.