Jacinta Walsh

Professional Ballet Dancer

Diploma Arts & Cultural Management

Personal Representative & Assistant to Directors & Choreographers

Ballet Teacher

 

Australian born, Jacinta Walsh is a professional ballet dancer and a personal representative & assistant to directors and choreographers. Jacinta holds a  Post Graduate Diploma in Arts & Cultural Management (University of South Australia, UniSA). For her management report on The Australian Ballet she received distinction.

Jacinta was recently engaged by Dr. Dieter Wedel one of Germany's Star Film Director's and Intendant of the Nibelungen Festspiele in Worms, as a choreographer for the prestigious festival. Jacinta choreographed and rehearsed the steps, moves, poses and postures required with all 80-cast members, drawing on a wealth of experience. 

Jacinta worked as an assistant to the opera director Nigel Lowery and choreographer Amir Hosseinpour at the Staatsoper, Unter den Linden Berlin for the production of Rossini's "L' italiana in Algeri". "The best in this evening are the ballet sequences. ... Ballet sequences danced by eight excellent dancers". (Julia Spinola. Frankfurter Allgemeine, 23 May 2005). 

Among other companies, Jacinta has been a guest principal dancer for Katharina Thalbach's opera production of Janacek's "Das schlaue Füchslein" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and later on she re-staged the dance scenes as well as performed.

Jacinta was a personal representative and assistant to Jochen Ulrich. 

In Europe and in Australia, Jacinta gives ballet training for professionals and students. Jacinta's ballet education was at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance in Melbourne, Australia. Her first engagement was with Basel Ballet under the artistic direction of Heinz Spoerli and Youri Vàmos, and afterwards with the ballet at the Deutsche Oper Berlin under the artistic direction of Ray Barra and Richard Cragun. Jacinta worked in soloist roles with Paul Taylor, Judith Jamison, Mats Ek, Maurice Béjart, Nacho Duato, Glen Tetley and John Neumeier. Jacinta was engaged as a guest soloist with Tiroler Landestheater Tanztheater under the artistic direction of Jochen Ulrich.

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