Classes

In addition to the classes listed below, Josie is also available for master classes, workshops, and choreography. Scroll down to learn more about Josie.

Edge Performing Arts
1020 N Cole, 4th Floor
Hollywood, CA 90038
(323) 962-7733

Tuesday / Thursday
10:00-11:30am (Int/Adv)

Mimoda Studio (formerly the Dancers Studio)
5774 W. Pico Blvd
(2 blks east of Fairfax, corner of Pico & Ogden)
LA, CA 90019

Saturday
12:30-2:00pm (Int/Adv) This class is on hiatus until May 2010

josie2JOSIE WALSH
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER

As an artist and teacher, her primary goal is to invoke and inspire; to compel from herself and her students 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 the dancer, you are the art.

Former professional dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and Los Angeles Chamber Ballet, Josie brings a progressive and unique approach to Ballet. Rooted in classical technique, Josie fuses disciplines of Yoga and Modern to deepen the understanding of connection, breath and timing inside the classical discipline. Set to alternative music, her stylized classes are both challenging and fun.

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:  “Yahoo” commercial, CBS “The Cleaner”, Walt Disney’s feature of TINKER BELL, CBS “That’s Life”, LA Music awards, MGM movie premiere “Bullet Proof Monk”, Red Bull “Formula One Race”Industrial, Los Angeles Ballet Co, Luminario Ballet, Aeolian Ballet, “Pilgrim” Rock Opera, Queen Mary Live, Focus Fish Flying Circus,Project Angel Food, charity appearances, numerous fashion shows and MYOKYO full length Rock Ballets:  Avalon, Gone with the Whim, Garden of Reason, Image-Nation.

Josie Walsh is the artistic director/choreographer of Myo, a contemporary dance and circus arts theatre company. Myo is a rendition of a new kind of genre, priding itself in transcending boundaries that present any single art form or classical tradition. By promoting diversity within the arts, Myo features cutting edge aerialists, acrobats, martial artists, ballerinas, Hip Hop dancers, actors, singers and live musicians who so happen to play on stilts. Myo dancers go from bare feet to pointe shoes to highflying aerial stunts in the rafters.

Myo symbolizes the changing face of the art world. The Myo spectacular is not to be mistaken for a dance concert, but is rather an extraordinary display of uninhibited imagination intersecting the arts.