JOSIE WALSH
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER

A native of Los Angeles and former professional dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and Los Angeles Chamber Ballet. 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: 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, 2004 Grammy Industrial, LA Music Awards, Paul Mitchell Industrial, Project Angel Food, Aeolian Ballet Theatre, Zurich Opera, MyoKyo™ productions: Garden of Reason, Image-Nation, Gone with the Whim, Avalon, & Carnivinyl.

Walsh founded MYO™ Dance Company 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. 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™ spectuacular is not to be mistaken for a dance concert, but is rather an extraordinary display of the uninhibited imagination intersecting the arts. Featuring collaborations with Ingrid Hoffman an architect/engineer-aerialist choreographer, and live rock band KYO™ whose front man Paul Rivera so happens to sing and play 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.