Josh Beamish

Josh Beamish, Artistic Director of MOVE: the company, began dancing under the direction of his mother Loretta Lachner in Edmonton, Alberta and Kelowna, BC. Upon moving to Vancouver, Josh continued his training at Pacific DanceArts, and began his career as an assistant choreographer, dance captain or dancer on various feature films and television shows. He has subsequently also danced for for Vancouver-based choreographers Simone Orlando and Amber Funk Barton. Josh’s works have been presented by Judith Marcuse Projects, Dancing On The Edge, ArtStarts In Schools, The Vancouver International Dance Festival, The Scotiabank Dance Centre, MovEnt’s Dances For A Small Stage, New Works, the Rotary Arts Centre (Kelowna), the ROMP! Festival (Victoria, BC), the Correspondanse Series in Quebec City, Festival Place (Sherwood Park), Tangente (Montreal), Made in BC: Dance on Tour and in association with both DanceWorks Co-Works in Toronto and with the Joyce SoHo in New York City. Josh’s work has also recently been commissioned by Ballet Kelowna, Dance Saskatchewan, the University of Alberta’s Orchesis, Toronto Dance Theatre and by the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC. His work “Trap Door Party” for MOVE: the company has also recently been performed by Wylliams/Henry Contemporay Dance in Kansas City and will next be performed by the Bellingham Repertory Company in Washington State. He is the 2009 recipient of a City of Vancouver Artist Studio Award, a 2008 Globe and Mail Dance Award and of artistic residencies at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, the Shadbolt Centre, the U of A, the Banff Centre and the Clarke Theatre. Josh will next participate in a session with the New York Choreographic Institute on the students of the School of American Ballet (New York City Ballet).