Karen Reedy

Karen Reedy grew up in the Washington DC area and received a BFA in Dance from 
George Mason University at the age of nineteen. In Washington DC, Reedy performed 
with Eric Hampton Dance and DC Dance Theater, among others, as well as performing 
and staging her own choreography. In New York, she has danced with Robert Battle, 
Sue Bernhard, Patricia Kenny, and Louis Johnson, and she continues to perform 
frequently with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Ms. Reedy has staged the work of Eric 
Hampton and has assisted such choreographers as Jirí Kylián, Hans van Mannen, 
Robert Battle, and Nacho Duato, at the Juilliard School. She has been a guest 
teaching artist at Northern Illinois University and George Mason University, and 
she currently teaches at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Ms. Reedy’s choreography 
has been seen throughout the New York and Washington DC areas, in venues such as 
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Place, Joyce Soho, and 
the Cosmopolitan Club.