Karin
About me
- About me
Karin Modigh is a professional baroque and renaissance dancer, working both within her own company Stockholm Baroque Dancers, as well as with others, such as French Compagnie l’Eventail and Belgian Corpo Barocco.
Karin has studied in France with Marie-Geneviève Massé, Françoise Denieau, Irène Ginger and Béatrice Massin, as well as at the University College of Dance in Stockholm, and at various courses in England and Italy. She has also studied commedia with Barry Grantham and Gino Samil, mime with Ika Nord, as well as musicology, dance and theatre science at Stockholm University.
Karin has performed in productions in France, the US, Germany, The Netherlands, and Sweden with choreographers such as Marie-Geneviève Massé (Stockholm Baroque Dancers and Compagnie l'Eventail), Françoise Denieau (Fondation Royaumont), Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante (Boston Early Music Festival), Sigrid T’Hooft (Corpo Barocco), Lieven Baert, Kaj Sylegård, and Bétina Marcolin. She has danced at the Drottningholm Theatre, Boston Early Music Festival, Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Lucent Danstheater in the Hague, Stockholm Early Music Festival and Palladium Baroque in Malmö, among others.
Karin’s work as a choreographer comprises collaborations with Les Paladins at the Stockholm Early Music Festival, Suzanne Persson (Completely Baroque), and the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre. In August 2010 she did her first solo performance, Le Visage Humain, in collaboration with luthenist Magnus Andersson. Both as a dancer and choreographer, she has a penchant for dance theatre, taking her general starting point from baroque or renaissance movement material.
After completing the one-year post-graduate pedagogy programme at the University of Dance and Circus in 2006, Karin has been giving regular classes in baroque dance at the Ballet Academy of Stockholm and in early dance at the Stockholm School of the Arts. She is a regular guest teacher at the Stockholm University College of Opera, and she has also been invited to the University College of Dance and Circus, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, an international festival of early dance in Moscow, as well as to the conservatories of Chartres and Fontainebleau in France.
In addition, Karin has collaborated on productions for Swedish radio and TV, and given lecture demonstrations at the baroque dance seminar in Rothenfels am Main, at the Stockholm City Archives, and at the international symposium La Sallé, held at the 18th-century court theatre Confidencen. In October 2010 she lectured together with Irène Ginger at Colloque Noverre, a research conference at Sorbonne in Paris.
Karin has been awarded a scholarship from the friends of Drottningholms Slottsteater, to be received at a ceremony in June 2012, in the presence of the Swedish king and queen.
Karin Modigh
www.karinmodigh.euStockholm Baroque Dancers
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