Becky Beaullieu Valls is an independent choreographer in Houston. She currently is working on a multi-media performance series with her sister/sculptor, Babette Beaullieu of New Orleans, and film-maker, Deborah Schildt of Alaska, titled Memoirs of the Sistahood, a form of non-linear storytelling. Chapter One of the series premiered at Diverse Works Houston in December 2007 where she received the Performing Artist Residency Grant. The evening-length work was performed in  New Orleans in 2009 at the Contemporary Arts Center through a National Performance Network Residency. Chapter Two: House premiered at Barnevelder Arts Complex in Houston in 2009. Valls received a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Project Grant  and a Diverse Works Performing Artist Residency Grant to produce Chapter Three: Ave Maria in November of 2011 and a UH Grant -in-Aid to tour Chapter Three: Ave Maria to the Contemporary Arts Center  in New Orleans in March 2012.

Valls is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Houston and the Director of the YOung Audiences Touring Company. She holds a Masters’ of Fine Arts in Choreography from Sarah Lawrence College in New York where her choreography was adjudicated and selected by the American College Dance Festival for the national concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington

In Louisiana, Valls served as Company Director for Moving South Dance Company where her choreography was funded by numerous state grants and performed in New Orleans, Houston, Washington D.C. and France. Since residing in Texas, Valls' choreography has been presented by Diverse Works, Big Range Dance Festival, Chrysalis Dance Company, JCC Dance Month, Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance at Miller Outdoor Theatre, San Jacinto College, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and Rice University where she served as director of the dance program and Rice Dance Theatre.

As a Teaching Artist for 23 years, Valls designs movement lessons with cross curricular links for elementary schools. She is the director and choreographer of Becky Valls and Company, a performing group with Young Audiences of Houston, that integrates dance and science through performance. The UH Dance Ensemble also tours one of her dance programs, Under the Sea, in elementary schools.

Most recently, her solo Red Square was performed at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and the Tempe Performing Arts Center in Tempe, Arizona.

www.beckyvalls.com