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Karin Modigh took her first baroque dance steps in

her mid-teens, and quickly developed a passion for

early dance that has since taken her throughout

most of Europe. Today she works professionally

as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of baroque

and renaissance dance, both within her company

Stockholm Baroque Dancers, as well as under her

own name. To Karin, baroque dance is a living

dance form, just as relevant and fascinating today

as it was 300 years ago.

Education

Karin has a broad training background encom-

passing classical ballet, contemporary dance, jazz

and Swedish folk dance. In early dance, she has

primarily studied at the University of Dance and

Circus in Stockholm, with Marie-Geneviève Massé

and Françoise Denieau in Sablé-sur-Sarthe,

France, with Irène Ginger and Béatrice Massin

in Paris, and at various courses in the UK

and Italy. She has also studied commedia under

Barry Grantham and Gino Samil, mime under

Ika Nord, as well as musicology, dance and

theatre science at Stockholm University.

Dancer and Choreographer

Karin has performed in productions in France, the US, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden with choreographers such as Marie-Geneviève Massé, Françoise Denieau, Sigrid T’Hooft (Corpo Barocco), Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante, Lieven Baert, Kaj Sylegård, and Bétina Marcolin. She has worked for Fondation Royaumont, the Drottningholm Theatre, Boston Early Music Festival, Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Musik i Väst and Musik i Syd, and Stockholm Early Music Festival, as well as with the baroque ensembles Corona Artis, Ensemble Mare Balticum, and Camerata Trajectina.

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.

Karin has received grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordic Culture Point, the Carina Ari Foundations, and the friends of the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.

Pedagogue and Lecturer

Since 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 also a regular guest teacher at the University College of Opera, and has been invited to the University College of Dance and Circus, to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, to the international festival of early dance in Moscow, and to the professional dance education programme in Gothenburg.

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.