Dean Walsh is the current recipient of the 2011/12 Australia Council 2 year Dance Fellowship. Since 1991 he has worked in the dance and contemporary performance disciplines in performer / collaborator / choreographer / director / mentor & teacher capacities. His repertoire of 25 short and 3 full-length solo works have been acclaimed, many touring nationally and/or internationally. His inventive large-scale dance and multi-media group work, Back from Front, premiered at Performance Space in 2008 attracting an extremely diverse audience. In 2009/10 he toured his collaborative (with Stalker Theatre and director David Clarkson) dance/aerial duet MirrorMirror twice to Holland. Earlier in 2010 he undertook a choreographic residency at Performance Space, choreographed a 30 min work for WAAPA and worked with STC & London’s Frantic Assembly as assistant choreographer to their production Stockholm. Dean was awarded the Robert Helpmann Scholarship (2002) leading to an engagement with DV8 Physical Theatre (London) and Amsterdam-based choreographer, Paul Selwyn Norton and a group of ex-Ballet Frankfurt dancers constructing the highly successful work Luxury Item. He won the Australian Dance Award for Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer for his role in ADT’s Age Of Unbeauty and in 2005 he was again nominated for his solo work Grounded on Air.