{"id":2295,"date":"2020-02-05T19:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-theater-and-dance\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2295"},"modified":"2021-08-19T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:50:10","slug":"karen-l-charles","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/facultystaff\/karen-l-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen L. Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Karen Long Charles<\/strong> was born in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 Karen received her B.F.A. in Ballet and B.S. in Computer Science from Texas Christian University.\u00a0 She received a M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Georgia State University.\u00a0 Karen studied as a fellowship recipient at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.\u00a0 Karen danced professionally with the Pittsburgh Choreography Continuum, Susan Warden Dance Company (Kansas City) and Room to Move Dance Company (Atlanta).\u00a0 Karen founded a dance school (Discovering Dance) in 1996.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2000, Karen moved to Minneapolis, MN where she worked as Co-Principal at Perpich Arts High School (2000-2002) and was founding Principal of P.I.M formerly called Main Street School of Performing Arts (2003-2010).\u00a0 In 2010,\u00a0 Karen\u00a0 founded Threads Dance Project (Threads).\u00a0 Karen\u2019s company has had successful tours to Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA; extended residencies at Carleton College, Macalester College, University of Iowa and University of Georgia; collaborated with Grammy-nominated a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock; was nominated for a Sage Dance Award (2015), and co-hosted McKnight International Choreographer Salia Sanou (Burkina Faso\/France) Fall 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In January 2021, Threads moved to their new home, Threads Dance Nexus located at 2213 Snelling Avenue in Minneapolis. Their new home allows further expansion of their mission to examine, expose and celebrate the thread that connect us by providing a place for continued community connection through dance classes and other community events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadsdance.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.threadsdance.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for additional information about Karen Charles and Threads Dance Project.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":2296,"template":"","class_list":["post-2295","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2295\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}