ONGOING PROJECT:  WESTERN DOOR/POWER TRAIL

Karen was a 2010 recipient of a prestigious Artist Project Grant, an award funded by the NEA and State of Arizona. Awarded by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, this grant supported the development of a new evening-length, multi-disciplinary, site-specific piece, Western Door/Power Trail. To learn more, follow the Western Door/Power Trail Blog. This piece will premiered at the Arizona Falls on November 13, 2010, and will be performed throughout 2011 and 2012.

January

Jan 15-20: Guest Artist Residence, University of Texas Pan American Department of Music and Dance. Karen will teach classes and set a new work for UTPA students.

March

Mar 2-4: Karen’s newest work, “Dancing in Heaven” will premiere in ASU School of Dance’s Dance Annual Concert. This work is part of a larger work, In it to Win, that chronicles Karen’s experiences growing up in a competition dance studio in the 80s and 90s.

Mar 23-26: Karen will teach Master Classes in Modern Technique as part of the American College Dance Festival’s Baja Conference at CSU Dominguez Hills

April

Apr 19-22: Karen will present a new work and perform Xmas in the Desert as part of A Ludwig Dance Theatre’s concert. Visit www.aludwigdance.org for more information.

May

May 17-20: Karen will participate in the Dance 2050 Symposium, which will discuss the future of dance in higher education. For more information, please visit www.ndeo.org .

2011 Events:

February

Feb 18-20: Premiere of Exhausted Abundance, a new site-specific duet addressing soil erosion.

Location: Margret Gisolo Dance Theatre, ASU Tempe Campus

More information: www.dance.asu.edu

March

Mar 25: Arizona premiere of Schreibstuck. Karen is one of three choreographers selected to interpret Thomas Lehman’s movement score.

Look for Karen’s article, Informed Decisions: Dance Improvisation and Responsible Citizenship, in the Journal of Dance Education.

April

Apr 1-3: Schreibstuck will be performed in the Phoenix Fringe Festival. Visit http://phxfringe.org/ for more information.

Ongoing in April: Read Karen’s My Schreibstuck in the Brooklyn Rail Newspaper. Visit http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/04/dance/my-schreibstck to read it.

July

Jul 18-23: Karen will teach master classes in Postmodern Contemporary Technique and Choreography in Beijing, China

Jul 24: Pausing at the Threshold will be performed as part of the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in Guangzhou, China

Jul 25-29: Karen will teach master classes in Postmodern Contemporary Technique as part of the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival. Visit http://www.gdfestival.cn/en/ for more information.

September

Sep 2-4: Pausing at the Threshold will be performed in the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival at the Ruth Page Theatre. Visit http://www.hccdf.com/ for more information.

October

Oct 18-22: National Dance Education Organization’s National Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

Karen will present an participatory workshop, Shared Experiences/Different Dances, and co-present a paper, Schreibstuck: A Written Score, A Network of Collaboration, as part of NDEO’s annual conference. For more information, please visit www.ndeo.org.

November

Nov 17-20: Congress on Research in Dance’s International Conference (Philadelphia, PA)

Karen will co-present a paper, Placing Interactive Performance. For more information, please visit www.cordance.org.

December

Dec 8-11: Karen will perform Pausing at the Threshold in WestFest Dance Festival, the last performance to be held at the Cunningham Studio. For more information, visit http://www.westfestdance.com.