Dance

Joseph Walsh

Princess Grace Award:
Dance Fellowship, 2009

Originally from Pennsylvania, Joseph Walsh trained at Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, American Ballet Theatre and Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy. Mr. Walsh was a member of Houston Ballet II prior to joining the professional company in 2007.

Since then, Mr. Walsh has been featured in a variety of roles, both contemporary and classical, including Lensky in John Cranko’s Onegin, Hans van Manen’s Solo, Gopak in Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker, Charles d’Artoise in Stanton Welch’s Marie, first pas de deux in Antony Tudor’s The Leaves are Fading, William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Jiri Kylian’s Soldiers’ Mass and the first and seventh pas de deux in Stanton Welch’s Nosotros.