Name: Kara

Roster Member Since: April 2017

Location: Calgary 

Teaching Area: Calgary - Okotoks - Hussar

Maximum Travel Distance: 30 min

Years of Teaching Experience: 10

Credentials: 

Arts Umbrella Professional Dance Program - Graduate

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Bio: 

"Kara is a Vancouver born dance artist graduated from the prestigious Arts Umbrella Professional Dance Program and is an alumnus of their world renowned Senior Dance Company. She was the recipient of two Advanced Arts Study Awards from the Vancouver Foundation to pursue these studies.

 

At Arts Umbrella, Kara trained in classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, pointe and partnering. Her primary teachers were Artemis Gordon, Marquita Witham-Lester, Lynn Sheppard and the late Grant Strate (Order of Canada). She toured internationally with the company, performing the works of contemporary dance choreographers Roberto Campanella, Joe Laughlin, Emily Molnar, Simone Orlando, Mark Godden, Shawn Hounsell and Edgar Zendejas.

 

Her early training also took her to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Summer Program, L’Ecole Superieure de Ballet du Quebec, the Banff Summer Training Program and Springboard Danse Montreal.

 

She holds major examination certificates from the Royal Academy of Dance and the Cecchetti Society up to an Advanced 1 Level."

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