Dominic Walsh Dance Theater is a contemporary dance company based in Houston Texas. Started by artistic director and former principal dancer for the Houston Ballet

Houston Ballet

The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. The foundation also maintains a ballet academy, the Ben Stevenson Academy, which trains more than half of the company's dancers...

, Dominic Walsh, DWDT ranges from progressive to classical choreography.

Dominic Walsh joined the Houston Ballet in 1989, rising to Principal Dancer in 1996. In 1998, he created Flames of Eros when Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson

Ben Stevenson, OBE , is a former ballet dancer with Britain's Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, co-director of National Ballet in Washington, D.C...

 invited him to choreograph on Houston Ballet, his work winning him the Choo San Goh

Choo San Goh

GOH Choo San , choreographer, was son of Kim Lok Goh, a merchant, and Siew Han Ch’ng.-Childhood:He was the youngest of ten children. His Chinese parents spoke Mandarin and the family was brought up with very traditional values. Goh was influenced by and followed in the path of three of his older...

 Award for Choreography. In 2002, he formed Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. In 2004, the company received the title of one of the top "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine

Dance Magazine

Dance Magazine is an "influential" American trade publication for dance, currently published by the Macfadden Communications Group. It was first published in June 1927 as The American Dancer. William Como was its editor-in-chief from 1970 to his death in 1989. Wendy Perron became its editor-in...

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External links

• http://www.dwdt.org dwdt.org Dominic Walsh Dance Theater website]