Christy Walsh started her performance career as a child, singing, acting and dancing in her grandmother’s musical theater company, Norfolk Musical Theater. Walsh went on to study at the Tidewater Ballet in her hometown of Norfolk, Virginia, where she also graduated from the Governor’s Magnet School. This led to a long career dancing for regional ballet companies and independent choreographers. concurrently studying photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Communication Arts and Design. It was in Richmond that Walsh first started choreographing independently in earnest. While she would continue to dance in other choreographers’ work, her focus shifted to making her own art. She also made her first dance films while at university.

After university, Walsh participated in a “Dance for Camera” residency at MASS Moca, the CUNY Dance Initiative, and a number of other artist residencies in New York, Virginia and Texas.

Her performance based works for the theater include evening length pieces: “Stories of the Sun God”, at Green Space in Queens; “Luminitza” at multiple venues in San Antonio, TX; Για σε το Ροδο, Ροδο μου in Chios, Greece. She has also produced site-specific works like “As Much As Things Change” for FIGMENT, “The Friend and the Eneher Are In the Mirror” for Chashama, in addition to collaborative efforts such as “Carving the Curve” at the Sculptors’ Dominion in San Antonio, TX. Many shorter works have been presented in a wide range of venues, from choreographic showcases to arts festivals in the US, Greece and Korea. Walsh’s films, videos, and artworks have been shown in festivals, galleries and commercial spaces in China, Columbia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Paraguay, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Romania, Russia and the US.