Becky Beaullieu Valls is an independent choreographer in Houston. She is 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.

Valls is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Houston and a board member for the National Dance Education Organization. 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 (1981-90)  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. Toni Valle, UH adjunct in the Division of Dance, has been a principal dancer in the company. This year the UH Dance Ensemble will tour her 45 min. dance 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, Thomas Baird, and Catherine Turocy.