Joshua Grant has been involved in the ballet field for over three decades and has had a professional ballet career spanning over two decades. Mr. Grant began his training at the age of three in Huntsville, AL and continued to train throughout his entire school years at various schools around the country including the Greenville Ballet School (Greenville, SC) and the Northwest Florida Ballet (Fort Walton Beach, FL). Mr. Grant trained extensively in the Russian Vaganova technique at The Harid Conservatory (Boca Raton, FL) before graduating high school and moving to Seattle, WA to train at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. At eighteen years of age, in 2001, Mr. Grant was invited to join the company of Pacific Northwest Ballet by Kent Stowell and Francia Russell where he danced various roles in the company's repertoire. In 2004, Mr. Grant moved to Toronto, ON, Canada and joined the National Ballet of Canada, dancing and creating roles by choreographers James Kudelka, John Cranko, and Mikhail Fokine. In 2006, Mr. Grant joined Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male international touring company which uniquely and specifically parodies the great classical ballets. Mr. Grant toured the world exclusively as a principal dancer to locations which included Japan, Russia, Greece, France, The United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Chile, Mexico and Brazil before returning to Seattle to rejoin Pacific Northwest Ballet in 2011. Since returning to Seattle, Mr. Grant has danced soloist and principal roles in the bulk of the company’s repertoire, eventually garnering himself a promotion to the rank of Soloist. Mr. Grant has worked personally with most of the contemporary choreographers currently working around the world including David Dawson, Crystal Pite, Twyla Tharp, William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Jean-Christophe Maillot, and Justin Peck. Mr. Grant retired from PNB in June of 2022 and has shifted his professional career from one of on-stage performance work to teaching, training, and helping to guide the future of dance at Dance Conservatory and Dance Theatre Seattle.