Classes

  • In addition to the classes listed below, Josie is also available for master classes, workshops, and choreography.

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

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

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    JOSIE 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 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 and Oregon Ballet Theatre, 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: “Underground Comedy” feature film, “Yahoo” commercial, UTV logo Identity, A&E “The Cleaner”, Starz “Torchwood”, 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, State Street Ballet, Luminario Ballet, Aeolian Ballet, “Pilgrim” Rock Opera, Asia Entertainment, 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.

    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.