2024-07-29 15:20:32
The renowned dancer and choreographer arrived in our country in 1978 to join Channel 13.
The Chamber of Deputies approved the project that grants citizenship by grace to the renowned dancer and choreographer of Australian origin Karen Connollyfor his outstanding career in our country.
Connolly began her dance studies in her native Australia at the age of 5, graduating from the Scully-Borovansky School of Ballet, obtaining a scholarship to study at the Kirov Ballet School in Leningrad.
After this, at the age of 16 she joined the Australian National Ballet Company, and then went to live in Europe, where she developed as a dancer and choreographic assistant in different international companies.
Along with this, He was an assistant to renowned choreographers such as Michael Maurer, William Millie, Harold Prince and Larry Fuller, to later settle in Chile in 1978 as a permanent choreographer on Channel 13 until 1991.
After being away from TV for a while, Karen Connolly returned in 2007 to be a judge on Crazy for Dancing and between 2008 and 2011 she was the president of the jury of Dance Fever and also coached the participants of Super stars.
For her part, in 1982 she founded Dancen Escuela Karen Connolly, a dance training institution that is now 42 years old, In addition to founding her own independent dance company in 1986, which bears her name, she has premiered more than fifty works of repertoire and has undertaken numerous national and international tours.