Karen Montanaro - Announcement
- 4 years ago
It’s Mime Time! virtual theatre - Announcement - Karen Montanaro
The upcoming week we have the honor to present at It’s Mime Time!: Karen Montanaro.
She is a solo performer, an award-winning choreographer, and the innovator of mimedance” (the fusion of two classical art forms).
She started her work in physical arts by studying ballet at various dance schools: Cantarella School of Dance, the Ram Island Dance Center and on scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet School. Then she danced professionally at the Ohio Ballet, the Darmstadt Opera Ballet in Germany and the Portland Ballet Company in the US.
When going through a life crisis she met the mime artist Tony Montanaro. Watching his performance on stage she experienced ‘a joy unlike anything she had experienced before’ ‘guiding her path back to life’. Tony was a unique kind of teacher. “He did not teach mime; rather he used mime to teach people how to be themselves.”
Karen spent the next fifteen years studying, teaching and performing with Tony Montanaro. Now, Karen tours the world with her one-woman show titled ‘Tanzspiel’. Karen blends the art forms of mime and dance to create theater with physical and emotional power.
On 08.01.2021, we look forward to presenting Karen Montanaro’s piece ‘A Wonderful W orld’.
The upcoming week we have the honor to present at It’s Mime Time!: Karen Montanaro.
She is a solo performer, an award-winning choreographer, and the innovator of mimedance” (the fusion of two classical art forms).
She started her work in physical arts by studying ballet at various dance schools: Cantarella School of Dance, the Ram Island Dance Center and on scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet School. Then she danced professionally at the Ohio Ballet, the Darmstadt Opera Ballet in Germany and the Portland Ballet Company in the US.
When going through a life crisis she met the mime artist Tony Montanaro. Watching his performance on stage she experienced ‘a joy unlike anything she had experienced before’ ‘guiding her path back to life’. Tony was a unique kind of teacher. “He did not teach mime; rather he used mime to teach people how to be themselves.”
Karen spent the next fifteen years studying, teaching and performing with Tony Montanaro. Now, Karen tours the world with her one-woman show titled ‘Tanzspiel’. Karen blends the art forms of mime and dance to create theater with physical and emotional power.
On 08.01.2021, we look forward to presenting Karen Montanaro’s piece ‘A Wonderful W orld’.