About this user
Karen is a world-renowned dancer and mime artist, an award-winning choreographer, and the innovator of mimedance (the fusion of two classical art forms). Karen studied ballet at the Cantarella School of Dance, the Ram Island Dance Center and on scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet School. Karen danced professionally with the Ohio Ballet and the Darmstadt Opera Ballet in Germany.
For more than a decade, Karen toured and taught internationally with mime master, Tony Montanaro. She currently tours the world with her one-woman show entitled Tanzspiel. Karen is a teaching artist and offers residencies in movement, mime and dance in public and private schools throughout the United States. Karen was recently awarded the 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship grant from the Maine Arts Commission.
Country
United States
Occupation
Performer, Teacher, Choreographer, Writer