Joshua Beamish founded MOVETHECOMPANY in Vancouver in 2005. His works have toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Commissions include The Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Vancouver Opera, Cape Town Opera, New York City Ballet Principals Wendy Whelan for Restless Creature and Ashley Bouder for The Ashley Bouder Project, New York Choreographic Institute, Compania Nacional de Danza de Mexico and Toronto Dance Theatre, among others.
Joshua choreographed for the CBC Radio Canada series Ils Dansent and with Cirque du Soleil for World EXPO Shanghai. He was an inaugural Artist-in-Residence at The Joyce Theater’s Choreographic Center, in addition to residencies at The Banff Centre and Jacob’s Pillow.
Notable presentations include Lincoln Center/NYC, BAM Next Wave/NYC, The Joyce Theater/NYC, The Guggenheim Museum/NYC, Royal Opera House/London, Princeton University, Fire Island Dance Festival, The Harris Theater/Chicago, Artists in Action/Mumbai, Seoul International Dance Festival and the Bangkok International Festival. He was a community advisor for the Vancouver Foundation from 2020 to 2023 and served as a member of the City of Vancouver’s Artistic Advisory Committee from 2023 to 2026.
Joshua is the current artistic director of Ballet Vancouver, a professional dance organization dedicated to renewing public access to classical, neoclassical and narrative ballet in the city.
