Becky Beaullieu Valls is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Houston and an independent choreographer. This is her third year producing and choreographing the Memoirs of the Sistahood series with sculptor Babette Beaullieu of New Orleans, and film maker Deborah Schildt of Anchorage. They have received a Performing Artist Residency Grant from Diverse Works Houston, a National Performance Network Residency Grant through the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, and a New Faculty Research Grant from the University of Houston to create Chapter One 2007 and Chapter Two:House which premiered in October 2009.

In Louisiana, Valls served as Company Director for Moving South Dance Company (1981-90) where her choreography was funded by numerous state grants from the Louisiana Arts Council 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 (4x), 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 20 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. Her two science/dance programs titled Dance of the Insects, and For the Birds have toured hundreds of elementary schools since 1992. This year the University of Houston Dance Ensemble toured her 45 min. dance performance program Under the Sea in elementary schools through YA.

In recent years, Valls has studied 18th century theatrical and social Baroque Dance with internationally acclaimed Baroque dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird at Rutgers College, and Catherine Turocy, Director of the New York Baroque Dance Company.

Valls 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.