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Christy Walsh is from Norfolk, VA, where she began her artistic career as a dancer, eventually expanding into a career as a fine art photographer. She danced for many companies and choreographers, and had her photographs shown in galleries and juries shows, and lately, on the internet. During the years in which she completed her BFA inFilm/Video at Virginia Commonwealth University she worked with Richmond Balletand Richmond Performing Arts Collective, for whom she choreographed several pieces that used video. In 1999 she participated in the Dance for Camera Workshop at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art in North Adams, MA where she collaborated with Australian choreographer Leah Grysewitcz on a short film. In 2002 she founded stringdance+media. stringdance was presented by many conventional and unusual performance venues in New York and NewJersey. stringmedia films and videos were shown in film and video festivals and continue to be enjoyed on Youtube and Myspace. After relocating to San Antonio in 2005, she founded the short-lived Southwest Contemporary Ballet for which she choreographed a number of academically-themed dances. In addition, she was an active member of the Modern Dancers’ Co-laboratory. Work with Modacolab has included collaborations with sculptors Jennie Powell and Jayne Lawrence. In 2007 she collaborated with Texas filmmaker Russ Ansley on a martial-arts inspired dance film about the Temperament "Melancholy". Since moving to Seoul, South Korea, she has continued her work in dance-video inspired by Sartre's "Being and Nothingness". |