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Joshua Beamish is currently the Artistic Director of Ballet Vancouver. He was the Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY for 20 years.

Joshua has created works in collaboration with The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Dutch National/Het Nationale Ballet Junior Company, Cape Town Opera, Vancouver Opera, American Ballet Theatre, among others.

For four years, Joshua collaborated with New York City Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan as both her dance partner and choreographer in Restless Creature. The production world premiered at Jacob’s Pillow, before widely touring America and to the Royal Opera House in London, UK.

Joshua was a founding member of The Joyce Theater’s Young Leaders Circle Committee, and an inaugural Artist-in-Residence at The Joyce Theater’s Choreographic Center at Gibney Dance in New York.

Since 2023, Joshua has been a member of the Arts & Culture Advisory Committee for the City of Vancouver.

Bryn Bridgen is an Indigenous contemporary dance artist with Ballet Vancouver. In 2024 she graduated from the GibneyPRO Professional Certificate Program in New York. Bryn will lead a repertoire workshop focused on material from Joshua Beamish’s forthcoming world premiere collaboration with Indigenous fashion designer Yolonda Skelton, who is of the Gitxsan nation.