Janet Karin OAM, VGCEBI - Classical Kinetic Educator, The Australian Ballet

A former Principal Dancer of the Australian Ballet, Janet Karin established her own teaching system, training many outstanding dancers, choreographers and teachers. She has received awards for direction, teaching and services to dance, including the Medal of the Order of Australia. Ms Karin has designed and facilitated a range of national and international courses, conferences and workshops including several consultancies in Asia. She is now Kinetic Educator at The Australian Ballet School.

In 2011, Ms Karin was elected Vice-President of the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS), and will become President in 2013. She has presented papers at IADMS conferences since 2002, and was Chair of a consortium formed by The Australian Ballet School, Australian Dance Council-Ausdance and the Australian Sports Commission to present the 2007 IADMS Conference in Australia.

Presentation: Creating the Future: The changing nature of talent

Saturday 14 April (1.20pm - 2.05pm)

As teachers, we have formulated our basic concepts through past experiences, and we are constantly updating our ideas as we are exposed to new training techniques, new scientific knowledge, and new directions in choreography. However, our students will dance in the future, in an environment as different from today as the present is from our own early training. How do we cater for this?

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