MOVE: the company is dedicated to the creation and presentation of both experimental and traditional contemporary dance works, MOVE: the company promotes an environment for creative exchange between artists both emerging and established. MOVE: the company 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, Made in BC: Dance on Tour, New Works, the Rotary Arts Centre (Kelowna), the ROMP! Festival (Victoria, BC), the Correspondanse Series in Quebec City, Festival Place (Sherwood Park), Tangente (Montreal), Kinetic Studio (Halifax), The Canadian Embassy & Cultural Alliance of Washington, DC (Washington, DC) and in association with both DanceWorks Co-Works in Toronto and with the Joyce SoHo in New York City. The company will be touring China and Mexico in Summer 2010.

“… establishes the most distinctive feature of Beamish’s vocabulary: a modern-dance version of popping, quick, staccato, and highly articulated.”

- Brian Seibert, The New Yorker

"Beamish, the choreographer, is an amazing dancer. It is hard to avert your eyes from him when he is on the floor ... repetitious vocabulary offers a calming, visceral experience for the viewer … Hardcore might best describe the speedy, aggressive, no-nonsense dance style.

– Lori Ortiz, Explore Dance New York

“Josh Beamish is turning heads across the continent and emerging as one of Canada's most promising choreographers”.

- Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail

Josh Beamish, Artistic Director of MOVE: the company, began dancing under the direction of his mother Loretta Lachner in Edmonton, Alberta and Kelowna, BC. After moving to Vancouver, Beamish continued his training at Pacific DanceArts, and began his career as an assistant choreographer, dance captain and dancer on various feature films and television shows. He has subsequently also danced for Vancouver-based choreographers Simone Orlando and Amber Funk Barton. Aside from his work with MOVE: the company, Beamish’s work has also recently been commissioned by Ballet Kelowna, Dance Saskatchewan, Halifax Dance, 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 recently been performed by Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance in Kansas City and 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 University of Alberta, the Banff Centre, the Clarke Theatre and at the Djerassi Program in San Francisco, CA. Beamish will participate in a session with the New York Choreographic Institute on the students of the School of American Ballet (New York City Ballet) and to create new works for the spring season of Wylliams/Henry in Kansas City and for the University of Missouri Dance Program.

Photo by Peter Eastwood