(Joshua Beamish. Photo
by Peter Eastwood)
Calling all Dancers, Teachers & Choreographers to come
experience Joshua Beamish from New York City.
Joshua Beamish will be jetting in to Durban on August 27 to
give a workshop to all dance lovers in Durban. He will be giving classes in
Contemporary Ballet and HipHop on August 27 and 28 at the Jubilee Hall in Princess
Alice Street, Glenwood. Thereafter he will fly to Cape Town to collaborate with
Matthew Wild and the Cape Town Opera as a choreographer for their new
production of The Magic Flute.
Joshua Beamish founded MOVETHECOMPANY in 2005 and his works
have since extensively toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and
Africa. Outside of the company, he has created in collaboration with The Royal
Ballet, New York City Ballet Principals Wendy Whelan for Restless Creature and Ashley Bouder for The Ashley Bouder Project,
Pacific Northwest Ballet Principals Carla Korbes and Lindsi Dec, Martha Graham
Company Principal dancer Lloyd Knight, The National Ballet of Canada’s
YOUdance, Compania Nacional de Danza de Mexico, Cape Dance Company/South
Africa, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for Pierced,
Toronto Dance Theatre, Ballet Kelowna, Sylvain Brochu, the Universities of
Alberta and Missouri, Purchase College at SUNY and The Juilliard School, Santa
Barbara Dance Theater, Ballet Kelowna, Coriolus Dance, Coastal City Ballet, le
Prisme Culturel, Halifax Dance, Bellingham Repertory, Ballet Jorgen and Kansas
City’s Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance, among others.
Beamish choreographed for the CBC Radio Canada reality
series Ils Dansent with Nico
Archambault, the Opening Ceremonies of the 2011 International Children’s Winter
Games, the Cultural Olympiads for both the 2010 and the 2012 Olympics and with
Cirque du Soleil for World EXPO Shanghai. He has worked closely with Paul
Becker as an Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain or Performer in Warner
Brothers The Wicker Man with Nicholas
Cage, New Line’s Code Name: The Cleaner,
Nickelodeon’s Jinxed, The CW’s HELLCATS and VH1’s Totally Awesome with Chris Kattan of Saturday Night Live. He also collaborated with RJ Durrell and Kelly
Konno in Nickelodeon’s Spectacular and
appeared in the ABC series Life As We
Know It with Kelly Osbourne.
He is the recipient of artistic residencies throughout North
America, including the Banff Centre, Jacob’s Pillow and a term as the National
Incubator Artist for the American Dance Institute in Washington, DC. He is an
alumni of the New York Choreographic Institute - an affiliate organization of
New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet, and a Jerome Robbins
Foundation grantee.
Notable recent presentations include The Joyce Theater in
New York, The Royal Opera House in London, Princeton University, London’s The
Place, New York’s Guggenheim Museum, a Jacob’s Pillow world premiere, a Fire
Island Dance Festival Commission, Chicago’s The Harris Theater, Artists in
Action in Mumbai and a 24-dancer evening for MOVETHECOMPANY commissioned by the
Bangkok International Festival to celebrate 50 years of Canadian and Thai
political relations.
In 2012, he performed in the Pillow’s 80th Anniversary
improvisation project From the Horses Mouth: The Men Dancers at Jacob’s Pillow,
alongside Arthur Mitchell and Lar Lubovitch, among others.
Beamish is a founding member of The Joyce Theatre’s Young
Leader’s Circle Committee. He most recently premiered Surface Properties, a collaboration with ten artists from American
Ballet Theatre, as the opening event of The Joyce Theater Ballet Festival 2015
and Reimagining Giselle, a
contemporary short form version of Giselle
for The Royal Ballet.
The SASAD (SA Society for the Advancement of Dance) is
hosting Beamish in Durban. The SASAD is a non-profit organisation consisting of
a group of teachers who give up their time to help and promote the passion of
dance in Durban. All monies raised by this Organisation are put back into
aiding Dance Workshops and performances for all up and coming performers. The
SASAD will be partially subsidising this workshop to make it very affordable
for all dancers to come experience Josh Beamish’s dance and knowledge in the
performing arts.
The Workshop will be held at the Jubilee Hall, Princess
Alice Street, Glenwood, Durban (below the Drama Dept at UKZN) on August 27 and 28.
Anyone interested in coming for a magical and privileged Dance weekend with one of the best, should
contact the SASAD on sasadkzn@outlook.com or phone Jenny
(SASAD Chairlady) 082 457 2542, or Des (SASAD Congress Chairlady) 082 563 1995,
or Noleen (SASAD Secretary 084 427 8591.
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