Project Description

Joshua Beamish is the Artistic Executive Director of Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, a contemporary dance organization founded in 2005. Professional, educational and social justice and welfare projects in the arts and cultural field have taken him throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has created for The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Vancouver Opera, Cape Town Opera, New York City Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature, Compania Nacional de Danza de Mexico, Toronto Dance Theatre and Cirque du Soleil for World EXPO Shanghai. He is a founding member of The Joyce Theater’s Young Leader’s Circle Committee, an alumni of the NY Choreographic Institute, and a Jerome Robbins Foundation, Samuel H Scripps Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantee.