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Josh Walden was the Associate Director/Associate Choreographer for the Tony Nominated Broadway Revival of Ragtime....Read more
Josh Walden was the Associate Director/Associate Choreographer for the Tony Nominated Broadway Revival of Ragtime. Their credits as a Choreographer include various productions at the Kennedy Center, the Muny, Sacramento Music Circus, Signature Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, Actors Theatre of a Louisville, Des Moines Metro Opera, Theatreworks USA, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Tisch School of the Arts, D.A.R.E., Doonce Productions, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, and Morag Productions for the Seabourn Sun Cruise Ship.
Josh’s Director/Choreographer credits include A Chorus Line (Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, and Theatre Memphis), Legally Blonde (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), The Rocky Horror Show (University of Buffalo), and the rock opera Fallen Angel (International Fringe Festival), which won Best Musical.
As a performer, Josh has been seen in the Broadway Revivals of 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, A Chorus Line, and Ragtime, as well as the Off-Broadway productions of Cagney and The Awesome 80’s Prom. Josh has taught dance at New York University, Molloy College, Dance Project of Washington Heights, the Eglevsky Ballet, as well as privately. Their dance company, Josh Walden Dance Theatre, received an honorable mention for Direction and Choreography at the New York Musical Theatre Festival for its production of All Is Love. Their film company, Walza Productions, had its first short film, I Love You, Anna, accepted into the New York City Independent Film Festival and the Big Apple Film Festival and is preparing for the release of its first Full Length, Discovering Henry.
Josh graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama.
Class Descriptions
Josh Walden’s tap class focuses on where the sounds should come from and how to modify one’s own technique to produce cleaner taps with more clarity. They use a warm-up that emphasizes the importance of initiating all tap steps from the hips. Through a series of flaps, shuffles and time steps, each student will be able to analyze their own habits and make the necessary adjustments to improve their skill level and be more consistent with their sounds. Through across the floor exercises and a quick combo, Josh gives the students an opportunity to put their newfound awareness into action while taking their technique and translating it into a full bodied performance.