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Kara Griffin, Dancer

July 8, 2011

Kara Griffin is returning as a dancer for our 2011-2012 performance season. She’ll be dancing in Stuck in Time, a new duet to be premiered January 25 in NYC. Enjoy reading her bio below!

Kara Griffin, from Cape Cod, MA, is a recent alum of Elon University where she received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography and BA in Strategic Communications. Griffin now lives in New York, NY and is excited to continue her creative collaboration with kearns dance project.

Griffin danced with kearns dance project in the 2010-2011 North Carolina Dance Festival Tour in Swinging on a Bench. During her Elon career, Griffin worked with Lauren Kearns since 2007 in pieces like Catching, Cubed, hush…touch…move, the multimedia piece I Live Here, And the Tempest Cries… and End Game. Other Elon faculty she has danced with includes Nina Wheeler, Linda Sabo and Gene Medler. Guest artists she has worked with while at Elon include Jon Lehrer, Chuck Davis and Laura Dean. She has also performed at the American College Dance Festival in student and faculty works in 2008, 2009 and 2011 and showed her choreography at the festival in 2010. Griffin has also performed in Elon’s Dance in the Landscape (2008), Choreography I and II Salons (2007-2009), Dancing in the BlackBox (2007, 2008, 2010), DanceWorks student choreography showcase (2007, 2008, 2009), the Senior Thesis Dance Concert (2007, 2008, 2009), Tapped Out! (2008, 2009, 2010), Reflections (2008), Vibe (2009), Elements (2010) and On That Note (2011). Her choreography debuted at the 2008 Choreography I Salon with her solo Rended. Later, in the spring of 2009 her duet The Fire in Your Heart is Out was performed in the DanceWorks student choreography showcase, and her quartet Drift. Release. Envelop. Abstract. Memories. was performed at the 2009 Choreography II Salon. Her senior thesis, A Half Made Whole premiered in February 2011.