Kara Nolte, Contemporary technique and repertoire Guest Teacher for Caulfield School of Dance Ballet and Contemporary Summer Intensives
Kara Nolte will be teaching Contemporary technique and repertoire as a Guest Instructor for Week A (August 7 to 11) of the 2017 Caulfield School of Dance Ballet and Contemporary Summer Intensives.
Kara Nolte is a Vancouver born dance artist. Kara’s choreography has been shown in collaboration with Project Oswald in Calgary, at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, the McColl Theatre in Terrace, BC, the Common Ground Festival, the Ignite Festival in Calgary, DanceFest at NextFest in Edmonton, at the T.B.A. Choreographic Showcase in Vancouver, 12 Minutes Max, the BC Buds Spring Arts Fair, Seattle Washington’s On the Boards, Ottawa’s Fresh Meat Festival, FUSE at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the In the House Festival. She co-created, presented, and produced two outdoor dance-theatre shows with theatre artist Julia Siedlanowska. In Switzerland, Kara assisted director Miriam Walther on an original theatre work at the Schaffhauser Kulturfest.
As a performer, Kara toured Western Canada with Judith Marcuse’s interdisciplinary show Earth=home and John Kaplan’s Fundraising Magic show. She has apprenticed with Josh Beamish’s MOVE: the Company and Amber Funk Barton’s the Response, and danced for Canadian choreographers Thoenn Glover, Hailey McCloskey, Anna Kraulis, Sylive Moquin, and Jacinte Armstrong. Kara danced in visual artist Tia Halliday’s recent residency showing at Contemporary Calgary.
Training with Order of Canada recipient Denise Clarke and the One Yellow Rabbit company of artists at their Summer Lab in 2014 brought Kara to Calgary where she later had the privilege of assisting Ms. Clarke with her solo show Wag at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. Kara also received mentorship on her choreographic practice from Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg through the pilot project Art Police in 2013. Kara’s solo work aux.la.more was in residency at W&M Physical Theatre during 2016 and her new group work was in residency at Calgary’s Theatre Junction through their TJ Lab Residency Program in January 2017.
Her early training took Kara to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Summer Program, L’Ecole Superieure de Ballet du Quebec, the Banff Summer Training Program and Springboard Dance Montreal. She holds major examination certificates from the Royal Academy of Dance and the Cecchetti Society up to the Advanced 1 Level.
Kara received two Advanced Arts Study Awards from the Vancouver Foundation to pursue her training in classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, pointe and partnering in the prestigious Arts Umbrella Professional Dance Program under Artemis Gordon, Marquita Witham-Lester, Lynn Sheppard and Order of Canada recipient Grant Strate. Kara is an Arts Umbrella Senior Dance Company alumnus and toured internationally with the company in the works of Roberto Campanella, Joe Laughlin, Emily Molnar, Simone Orlando, Mark Godden, Shawn Hounsell and Edgar Zendejas.
Kara has been teaching since the age of 15 and seeks to cultivate a love and respect for the work of dance in her students. She worked with a group of diverse youth to create a collaborative talent show with Richmond Multicultural Services and assisted Thoenn Glover on an original show created with high school students in Smithers BC. In September 2014 Kara became certified as a DANCEPL3Y instructor; an innovative dance program designed to give fun, positive and creative dance experiences to adults and kids. This is her third year being invited to teach and choreograph at the Terrace Summer Dance Intensive and this year she has had the pleasure of teaching dance in the small farm village of Hussar Alberta with the Hussar Fine Arts Society. Last summer Kara received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to for teacher’s professional development with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City. In Calgary, Kara works with elite competitive students on contemporary dance technique. She is a much sought after instructor and choreographer having worked with students at the Alberta Dance Academy, School of Alberta Ballet, FreeHouse Dance Plus, Springbank Dancers, Counterpoint Dance Academy, Trip the Light Youth Company and Danza.
Featuring Guest Faculty and Caulfield School of Dance teachers, the Caulfield School of Dance Summer Intensive weeks are an invaluable experience. Even one full week produces amazing improvement. The Ballet and Contemporary Intensive weeks are August 7 to 25; the Multidiscipline weeks are August 21 to September 1. For those pursuing Performance Training Company Programs, or Professional Training Division courses, participation in 2 weeks of Summer Intensive training is especially recommended, and up to 2 weeks of Summer Intensive Tuition fees are included in 2017-2018 Company and Division program tuition at the Special Fee Ceiling.
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