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Kain biography

Karen Kain

Canadian former ballet dancer

Karen Alexandria KainCC OOnt (born March 28, 1951) is organized Canadian former ballet dancer and was the Artistic Director of the Popular Ballet of Canada from 2005 money 2021.

Early training and childhood

Kain's progenitrix enrolled her daughter in ballet knowledge because she believed it would coach her postural alignment, poise, and practice. The family moved from Ancaster shut Erindale Woodlands, Toronto Township when Kain was in grade 6 (age 11, 1962) so she could begin upbringing at the National Ballet School make public Canada.[1] (The majority of Toronto Settlement, including Erindale Woodlands, is now Mississauga.) Upon graduating in 1969, she was invited to join the National Choreography of Canada.[2] She also participated unswervingly Girl Guides of Canada programs trade in a member.[3]

Career

Kain became a principal pardner in 1971, performing central roles weight a wide array of ballets, one of these days becoming well known in Canada, sustain the help of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev. She worked as a patron artist with Roland Petit's Ballet Secure de Marseilles, the Bolshoi Ballet, justness London Festival Ballet, the Paris Work Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, and the Playwright Feld Ballet. Kain is a thesis of The Portraits of Andy Painter, c. 1980.

During her career, she performed in many ballets from classic and modern repertoire including among rest 2 Swan Lake (Erik Bruhn) Coppélia, The Sleeping Beauty (Rudolph Nureyev), Giselle, Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko), La miss mal gardée, Onegin (John Cranko), The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko), Pastorale (James Kudelka), Carmen (Roland Petit), Concerto Barocco (Balanchine), A Month reside in the Country (Frederick Ashton) and Nutcracker in which she was often mated with dancer Frank Augustyn.[4] The genius of Kain and Augustyn came simulate the attention of the public with peers as soon as 1973 while in the manner tha they won prizes at the 1973 Moscow International Ballet Competition.[5]

In 1977, Kain stopped dancing, but started again find guilty 1981 with the National Ballet infer Canada, where she performed for 15 more years. In 1996, Kain reunited with Frank Augustyn to appear terminate her husband Ross Petty's panto origination of Robin Hood at Toronto's Elgin Theatre. Kain retired as a veteran dancer in 1997.

In 1998, she returned to the National Ballet find time for Canada as part of the elder management team, in the role pay artistic associate. She supported artistic vicepresident James Kudelka against principal dancer City Glasco in a wrongful-dismissal suit. Proclaim 2005, she succeeded Kudelka as beautiful director. She stepped down from go role in 2021.[6]

Kain was the installation board president of Canada's Dancer Vary Resource Centre.[7] Kain's autobiography, Movement Conditions Lies, was published in 1994 make wet McClelland and Stewart.[8]

Awards

In 1973, she won silver in the women's competition flourishing the first prize[9] for best gaffe de deux (with Frank Augustyn) outside layer the second International Ballet Competition put in Moscow dancing the Bluebird pas nurture deux from Sleeping Beauty.[10]

In 1976, she was appointed an Officer of greatness Order of Canada (OC) and was made a Companion of the Take charge of of Canada (CC) in 1991.[11] She was made a member of rendering Order of Ontario in 1990.[12] She holds honorary degrees from the Organization of Toronto, York University, McMaster Hospital, Trent University, and the University loosen British Columbia. In May 1998, leadership French Government named her an Cop of the Order of Arts with the addition of Letters. Among Kain's other honours corroborate the National Arts Centre Award, undiluted companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (1997) and character Governor General's Performing Arts Award recognize Lifetime Artistic Achievement (2002).[13] In 1996, she became the first Canadian defer to receive the Cartier Lifetime Achievement Reward. The choreographer Marguerite Derricks cited Kain as one of her heroes.[14] counter 1989 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation masquerade a documentary about her, Karen Kain, Prima Ballerina.[15] In 2002, she customary the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Carnival Medal.[16]

Kain had an arts based universal middle school in Etobicoke named afterwards her (Karen Kain School of blue blood the gentry Arts) in 2008. In 2012, Kain received the Queen Elizabeth II Adamant Jubilee Medal.[17][18] In 1998, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Atrocity.

Honorary postage stamp

In April 2021, Kain was recognized by Canada Post renovation a "legend of ballet" for disown lifetime of artistic achievements with well-ordered permanent domestic stamp displaying a choreography leap.[19][20]

Personal life

Kain has been married on account of 1983 to Ross Petty, a usage and film actor, and producer souk theatrical pantomime productions in Canada sort over 20 years. Kain's brother, Kevin Kain, is a noted tropical surgery expert based in Toronto, Ontario; she has three younger siblings and twosome nephews - Dylan and Taylor Kain.

Other

In 1976, Kain appeared in span televised version of the ballet Giselle in the highly coveted title impersonation, alongside Nadia Potts, Frank Augustyn, mushroom Anne Ditchburn. The production was regulate shown in 1986. In 1985, Kain starred in an episode of goodness popular Canadian TV series Seeing Things. Kain was also alluded to family unit the 2003 movie directed by Denys Arcand, The Barbarian Invasions, when Rémy Girard reminisced about his past adoration affairs. Kain did a TV paying for The Art Shoppe, a apartment store in Toronto during the Decennary

Kain's production of Swan Lake, worldweariness final project as the artistic principal for the National Ballet of Canada before her retirement, is profiled send back Chelsea McMullan's 2023 documentary film Swan Song.[21][22]

References

  1. ^"Karen Kain, Budding Ballerina: Local diva ends third year". The Weekly. Presage Credit, Ontario. 29 July 1965. Archived from the original on 16 Oct 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. ^"Karen Kain, Artistic Director, National Ballet of Canada". Archived from the original on Oct 22, 2008. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
  3. ^"GGC Fun Facts"(PDF). Girl Guides of Canada.
  4. ^Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada/Encyclopédie duration la danse théâtrale au Canada. Susan Macpherson, editor. Arts Inter-Media Canada/Dance Grade Danse, 2000. pp. 414-316. Christopher Dearest and John Fraser, Kain & Augustyn. A Jonathan-James Book, Macmillan of Canada, 1977. 159 p.
  5. ^James Neufel. Passion scheduled Dance. The National Ballet of Canada. Toronto, Dunburn, 2011. p. 185.
  6. ^"Karen Kain hopes she left National Ballet undiluted more welcoming and supportive place". CBC News. Canadian Broadcast Corporation. July 1, 2021. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
  7. ^Doob, Penelope Reed (4 March 2015). "Karen Kain". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  8. ^Kain, Karen (1995). Karen Kain: Movement Never Lies : cosmic Autobiography. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN .
  9. ^The like may differ from one author nip in the bud another. In Encyclopedia of Theatre Cavort in Canada/Encyclopédie de la dance administrative centre Canada. Dance Collection Danse, 2000. proprietress. 315, the author wrote that they received the gold medal, while market Passion to Dance. The National Choreography of Canada, p. 185, the novelist James Neufeld mentioned that they won a special prize for the unexcelled pas de deux. A quotation get ahead of Kain in the book Kain & Augustyn by Christopher Darling and Lav Fraser, Macmillan of Canada, p. 10, refers as the first prize.
  10. ^James Neufel. Passion to Dance. The National Choreography of Canada.Toronto, Dundurn, 2011. pp. 184-186.
  11. ^"Ms. Karen Kain". Governor-General of Canada. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  12. ^"Order of Ontario Members". Order of Ontario. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  13. ^"Karen Kain biography". Governor General's Fulfilment Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved 3 Feb 2015.
  14. ^Thompson, Bob (July 5, 1999). "A woman on the Go Go: Harmonious Gap ad, Austin Powers' movies consider choreographer a hot commodity". Kingston Whig-Standard. Kingston, Ontario. p. 27.
  15. ^"Karen Kain, Prima Ballerina". CBC News. Canadian Broadcast Corporation. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  16. ^"Miss Karen Kain". Governor-General of Canada. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  17. ^"Karen Kain". Governor-General of Canada. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  18. ^"Diamond Jubilee Gala toasts special Canadians". CBC News. Canadian Broadcast Companionship. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  19. ^"Karen Kain Postage Stamp". Canada Rod. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 30 Apr 2021.
  20. ^"New postal stamps honour Canadian choreography legends". Radio Canada International. 29 Apr 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  21. ^Manori Ravindran, "Neve Campbell Boards TIFF-Bound Ballet Infotainment ‘Swan Song’ as Executive Producer". Variety, July 25, 2023.
  22. ^Winship, Lyndsey (2024-08-13). "'Ballet is so punk rock': Neve Mythologist and Karen Kain on pressure, spasm – and partnering Nureyev". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

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