Joan Walton has been teaching at Vintage and Historical dance workshops nationally and internationally since 1991. Her work encompasses choreographing for operas at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, with six of them winning 1st place at the National Opera Awards. She also creates choreography for Vintage dance performing companies, including Watch Your Step in Denver, and Danse Libre in the Bay Area. Musical theatre productions, particularly those with a Vintage or Tap dance focus, are another specialty. As Assistant Director and performer with Richard Powers' Flying Cloud Vintage Dance Troupe for ten years, she danced in the 1985 TV mini-series North and South. A guest artist with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, she performed Morton Gould's challenging Tap Dance Concerto. Joan received her Master's degree in Dance Education at Stanford University and now teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.
