Faculty | Emeritus
Joan Karlen

Joan Karlen

PROFESSOR

Joan Karlen, Dance Program Coordinator and Professor of Theatre & Dance, specializes in multimedia dance project. At UWSP she teaches ballet, dance composition, digital video editing and the dance program's Interdisciplinary Seminar. Her teaching has been recognized with UWSP's Teaching Excellence Award (twice), the UW-System Teaching Scholar Award, the Who's Who Among American Teachers Award (twice), and the student-nominated University Leadership Mentor Award.

Joan has presented her video and computer-generated dances throughout the United States and in Germany, the UK, Portugal and Argentina. She has been a selection jury member for the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, NYC, taught Workshops in Dance Video Editing, and been a national panelist on Designing Dance Video Courses and Multidisciplinary/Multimedia Issues and Projects. Joan performed throughout the US and as a principle dancer with Nucleodanza, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She earned dance degrees from The Juilliard School and New York University.

Her interview on camera dance, media streaming, and blending real time physical art with visual compositions is featured on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Streaming Media site.

Collaborative projects include 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) at the Teatro Presidente Alvear, Buenos Aires, Argentina Video version screened at the Digital Cultures Lab, Nottingham, England.

jkarlen@uwsp.edu
(715) 346-3982
NFAC 0140D
Spark Festival: Scars
OJO AL ZOOM press links
Journal Articles

"Melding Dance and Technology with Exciting Results: A Faculty Profile of Professor Joan Karlen"
http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/karlen.htm

"Technology and Dance Bring New Avenues for Artistic Discovery," by Professor Joan Karlen
http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/artstate.htm