Biography

Karin Stevens began her training most notably with Pacific Northwest Ballet and The Seattle Children's Theater. Her artistic lens has been influenced by a diverse movement background and travel, including a theatrical performance experience as a youth in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and a year studying dance in Spain as a young adult. While completing a B.A. in dance from the University of Washington, she was awarded a Mary Gates Endowment for Student Leadership Grant for her work with at-risk youth through dance. In 1999, Stevens began presenting her work and since has completed more than 40 dances. As Director of Dance at Dr Philips H. S., Orlando, FL, 2000 - 2003, she created many notable dances and was awarded multiple invitations to present in various national and local dance festivals, including a request to teach and choreograph for The Orlando Ballet School.  In 2003, Stevens was awarded a full scholarship and teaching assistantship for the Mills College MFA Dance program. While dancing with the Mills Repertory Dance Company her performance in Molissa Fenley's, Water Courses, was recognized in the Voice of Dance. Following graduate school, Stevens formed Oakland Dance Encounter, collaborating with local composers and performing in many Bay Area venues. Stevens returned to Seattle in 2007 to form Karin Stevens Dance. 2009 - 2011, her company was established as the resident dance company of the Fremont Abbey Arts Center.  As Dance Curator for the Fremont Abbey Stevens produced a number of curated dance events and assisted in the mission and launching of dance educational classes , workshops and community outreach at the Abbey.  Stevens has danced for VOCI Dance, Double Vision, Omega West, Push Up Something Hidden Dance, Westwick Dolder Dance Theater, Molissa Fenley and Dancers, Penny Hutchinson, and various Seattle, Los Angeles and Bay Area independent choreographers. In February 2009, she joined, master choreographer, Molissa Fenley, as an associate artist, at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.   Her company collaborates with many local artists, composers, and music ensembles.  Currently ksd is at home in Velocity Dance Center and will produce their May 2012 concert in Velocity’s Founders Theater.

About Karin Stevens Dance

Karin Stevens Dance was launched in Seattle in 2009.  ksd presents and tours multiple performances around the greater Seattle area and NW region.  ksd’s mission is to create dance to original new music and/or live musical accompaniment of new and old music, and to collaborate with many local and regional organizations, musicians, composers, visual artists, and fashion designers.  ksd has worked with the Kalispel, MT based Glacier Symphony and Chorale, the Missoula, MT based String Orchestra of the Rockies, and Seattle’s Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Simple Measures, Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, and composer Phillip A. Peterson to name a few...