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The National Dance Association is proud to announce the 2011 Scholar/Artist, Karen Kaufmann. Professor of Dance, University of Montana
Karen focuses her classes on Dance in Elementary Education, Dance as a Healing Art, Junior/Senior Seminars, Pedagogy, Teaching Movement in Schools, and The Creative Pulse. She will present her Scholar/Artist Lecture at the AAHPERD National Convention in San Diego (time TBA).
Karen received the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Award at the School of Fine Arts Commencement Ceremony. She was the keynote speaker for the Montana Alliance for Arts Education at the 2007 and 2008 Montana Educators Conferences and the National Dance Association (NDA) "Pedagogy in the 21st Century" Conference. She was honored with an Individual Fellowship Award from the Montana Arts Council and The University of Montana Service Award for her service and outreach in dance education. She links her choreography to the academic curriculum and her work is performed in elementary schools throughout the Northwest. Her 50-minute piece, A CoMotion in Motion (linking dance with Newton's Laws of Motion), was performed at the NDA conference in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her textbook Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance was published by Human Kinetics, and she has authored numerous articles about dance education. Recently Karen launched the Montana Model Dance in Education Project (MoDE), providing qualified dance teachers for Montana public schools. She serves as core faculty in the Creative Pulse program for Master Teachers.
The Scholar/Artist Award is presented to a distinguished candidate nominated by a committee of peers based on contributions to the field of dance education. For additional information and to nominate someone, please contact the National Dance Association, nda@aahperd.org or 703.476.3464.