Dominic Walsh — Resident Choreographer

Dominic Walsh began dancing in Elgin, Illinois with Lisa Boehm. He joined Houston Ballet in 1989 and danced there until 2004. He was promoted to Principal Dancer by 1996. During his years at the ballet, he danced with major companies around the globe, receiving praise from national and international critics. He has danced all the classics such as Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, Romeo & Juliet, and Manon and appeared with major stars, including Nina Ananiashvili and Alessandra Ferri. He also has danced the contemporary repertoire and has had many ballets created for him. Some of the most influential choreographers include Jirí Kylián, Christopher Bruce, Nacho Duato, Natalie Weir, William Forsythe, Kenneth MacMillian, George Balanchine and Ben Stevenson.

In 1998, he created Flames of Eros, when Mr. Stevenson invited him to choreograph on Houston Ballet. This work won the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography. He created three more works for Houston Ballet and Houston Ballet Academy and continues to set and create works for other companies most recently including, Ballet Florida, ABT Studio Company, Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo, New National Theatre, Tokyo, and Sarasota Ballet of Florida. In 2002, he formed Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, a Houston-based contemporary ballet company. In May 2006, Mr. Walsh created Romeo & Juliet, his first full-length, multi-sensory production that received praise from Dance Magazine. In 2007, he premiered a new full-length ballet, Orfeo ed Euridice, for New National Theatre, Tokyo and a full-length Sleeping Beauty.

Most recently, he premiered Titus Andronicus. Since founding his company, Mr. Walsh continues to grow as a dancer and had the opportunity to perform the American premiere of Mauro Bigonzetti's Pression. Most recently, he danced Jirí Kylián's only solo for a man, Double You, and the White Swan pas de deux from Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Walsh received his second Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography for Amadeus in 2007 and in July 2008, he won a Princess Grace Award for Choreography for Mozart.