Joan Karlen - Department of Theatre & Dance

Joan Karlen, Dance Program Coordinator and Professor of Theatre & Dance, specializes in multimedia dance projects.  At UWSP she teaches ballet and jazz technique, dance composition, digital video editing and the dance program's Interdisciplinary Seminar. Joan’s teaching has been recognized with the student-nominated University Leadership Mentor Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Teaching Excellence Award, the Who's Who Among American Teachers Award, and the UW-System Teaching Scholar Award. Joan earned dance degrees from The Juilliard School and New York University. 

Joan has presented her video and computer-generated dances throughout the United States, and in Portugal, Berlin, Germany, the UK, Cairo, Egypt, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been active with Dance Films Association’s Dance on Camera Festival (Lincoln Center, NYC) as a selection jury member, forum panelist and workshop presenter,and been a national panelist on DesigningDance Video Courses and Multidisciplinary/Multimedia Issues and Projects.

As a performer she originated several roles with New York-based companies, throughout the US andin Argentina.Recent multimedia collaborations include Trace (2011) Travis Kirton, TypeIs software author, Rafael Francisco Salas, projections; Ringtone (2009) Amod Damle, Katie Miller and Andy Broomell media artists; Lines of Resolution (2008) John Little animator; Scars, a multimedia performance work based on cross cultural relationships, composed and directed by Nahla Mattar of Cairo, Egypt;Zoom In, Look Out (Ojo Al Zoom) Margarita Bali choreographer, at Teatro Presidente Alvear, Buenos Aires, Argentina – video version screened at the Digital Cultures Lab, Nottingham, England.