Karen Fennell

Karen Fennell is a contemporary dance artist based in Montreal, Canada, where she works on a diversity of projects for stage, video, and site-specific performance. As a dancer, she has featured in the work of Martin Messier, Tedd Robinson, Dana Gingras, Sasha Kleinplatz, Maria Kefirova, and visual artists Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (among others). Her most recent choreographic projects have been interdisciplinary co-creations – CLOSER (2017, with media artist Nikki Forrest), and the trouble with reality (2015, with musician Jackie Gallant). Karen is currently pursuing the creation of her first self-solo, which she began developing in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), under the guidance of Master Artist Deborah Hay. Karen is also a certified instructor of the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Methods.