Dean Walsh has been an influential member of the Australian independent contemporary dance and performance communities for the past eighteen years working with numerous Australian and international companies, individuals and festivals in performer / collaborator / choreographer / director / artistic consultant / mentor & teacher capacities. He has devised & performed in more than twenty-five solo works, including two full-length, & has toured many of these nationally and/or internationally. He has just completed a highly successful season of his latest collaborative work MirrorMirror with David Clarkson of Stalker Theatre and Dutch choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton as co-director, co-choreographer and co-performer at Parramatta Riverside Theatres, receiving great reviews. This work looks set to tour Central and South America in 2010 and has been picked up by Frans Brood productions for European touring in 2010 and 2011.

Dean toured Japan in 2006 with his solo ‘un-speakABLE’ as part of the Australian / Japan Year of Cultural Exchange & in 2008, at Dancebase, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, he held a three-week workshop & commenced stage one of an international exchange between himself and Scottish dancer /choreographer/director David Hughes and his company David Hughes Dance. Dean’s large-scale physical theatre/multi-media group work, Back From Front, premiered at Performance Space in 2008 attracting an incredibly diverse audience, considerable acclaim and international interest for potential touring in 2011. In 2002 Dean was awarded the prestigious Robert Helpmann Scholarship enabling collaborations with various individual practitioners in Europe and engagements with DV8 Physical Theatre (London) & Paul Selwyn Norton (Amsterdam) – touring with both these companies internationally.

In 2005 he was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for his solo Grounded on Air in the Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer category and won this award in 2002 for his role in ADT’s Age Of Unbeauty. He has tutored and taught for the New Dance Development Centre in Holland, DV8 Physical Theatre and many major Australian dance institutions and companies. Dean sits on the board of directors for Ausdance NSW.