karen louise dance
Ipswich
Karen is a Suffolk based Dance Artist specialising in contemporary and community
dance. She trained at Roehampton University where she gained a BA (hons) in
Dance Studies. Karen went on to complete a PGCE at University Campus Suffolk in
2014 and has worked in a range of educational settings in Suffolk, Norfolk and
Cambridgeshire. She is currently teaching her own classes Stow Movers and
Hadleigh Movers, movement classes for 55+ years, and her youth company Karen
Louise Youth Dance which all run weekly. Alongside regular delivery, Karen has
taught on many exciting projects including: –Big Dance 2016 (in conjunction with
Akram Khan & People Dancing) -Big Dance Workshops 2016 (in conjunction with Anna
Rowe Dance) -7 Schools 1 Town 2017 (DanceEast & Gecko Theatre) -The Inkwell 2017
including Arts Award (DanceEast) -KLD & Yodanga Arts Summer School 2018 & 2019
-Hadleigh Hullabaloo 2019 (DanceEast) –Dance From Home 2020 – Present
(DanceEast) -Tell Your Story Project 2022 (ICEP & St Pancras Primary School)
-Jubilant! 2022 (The Food Museum, Mendlesham Primary School & John Peel Centre)
In 2018 Karen worked as Producer for Ipswich Choral Society on a large-scale
community project commemorating WW1; Ipswich Remembers. She continues to enjoy
these Producer roles and has produced several KLD projects in 2020. Most
recently Karen works for Dance Network Association in Essex as their Dance
Development Officer. She runs and delivers on programmes such as their Youth
Company, Dancing with Dementia, RE:Generation Colchester and their Dancing with
Parkinson’s classes. Karen was part of the 17/18 cohort for Overture, a
professional development opportunity with ReBourne. She was 1 of 16 UK Dance
Artists that took part in four residential weekends. She has also recently
completed a Dementia Care Mapping course through Bradford Universirty supported
by DanceEast, and also was a part of the Emerging Leaders programme with
National Centre for Writing. Karen is also a keen performer, and has been a
member of Kinetica Dance Collective (formerly Dance Unlimited), a performance
group in Suffolk, for seven years now, and performs regularly in East Anglia.
