Karen Kain

Karen Alexandria Kain ( born March 28, 1951 in Hamilton / Ontario ) is a Canadian ballet dancer.

Life

Cain had from the age of six ballet classes. She attended from 1962 to 1968, the National Ballet School in Toronto, where Betty Oliphant was their teacher. In 1969 she became a member of the National Ballet of Canada, which they, from 1970 belonged as a solo dancer, until the end of her career in 1997. 1971 started her successful collaboration with Frank Augustyn, with whom she performed in classics such as Coppélia, Le Corsaire, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and the International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 1973 the first prize for the best pas de deuxgewann. Between 1973 and 1984 she appeared with Rudolf Nureyev internationally.

With the National Ballet she performed in productions such as Ann Ditchburns Mad Shadows, Constantin Patsalas Rite of Spring, Symphony and Oiseaux exotiques, Glen Tetley's Alice, La Ronde and Tagore, John Alleyne Time Out with Lola, Christopher Houses Café Dances, John Neumeier's Now and Then and Dominique Dumais ' Tides of Mind on. A close artistic partnership she joined with James Kudelka.

From 1972 to 1982, Cain guest dancer of the Ballet National de Marseille, from 1984, she appeared as a guest at the Eliot Field Ballet Company. With Augustyn she undertook in 1981 a tour as a dancer and teacher by China. Pat Ferns produced three documentaries about them (1979, 1989 and 1994), and Andy Warhol was portrayed in 1980.

1997 Cain took their farewell tour after 26 years as an active dancer with the National Ballet of Canada under the direction of impresario Garth Drabinsky. She remained the National Ballet as Artist in Residence and connected as artistic associate from 2000 and was named after Kudelkas resignation in 2005 artistic director of the ballet. From 2004 to 2008 she was a member of the board of the Canada Council for the Arts. She was honored as Officer and in 1996 as a Companion of the Order of Canada, was the first Canadian to 1996 Cartier Lifetime Achievement Award, was honored in 2000 et by the French Government as Officier of the Ordre des Arts des Lettres, received the 2002 Governor General 's Performing Arts Award and the 2011 Distinguished Artist Award from the International Society for the Performing Arts. Kain is married to the actor Ross Petty.

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