2023
_____[10] Skort, Cambridge, MA (June)
Groton School Short Works Festival, Noumenon performed by a Groton Theatre student, Groton, MA (May)
Malden Dance Mile, Malden, MA (May)
aMaSSiT Fundraising Program (April-May)
aMaSSiT Pitch Sessions, Cambridge, MA (April)
aMaSSiT, mentoring program with The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February-April)
INK in Motion, guest artist for Alive Dance Collective, Cambridge, MA (April)
NACHMO Boston Live Performances, Cambridge, MA (March)
Mass Cultural Council Project & Festivals Grant Recipient, NACHMO Boston (February)
Mass Cultural Council Project & Festivals Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (February)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
NACHMO Boston, Co-Producer (January)
2022
Brown Bag Lunch: JJ Omelaga (November)
Brown Bag Lunch: Jessica Roseman & Kim Holman (November)
Mentoring Matters Birthday Fundraiser (October)
Brown Bag Lunch: Kelsey Griffith (October)
Brown Bag Lunch: Sarah Duclos (October)
Brown Bag Lunch: Cheri Opperman (September)
Brown Bag Lunch: Charles G. Baldwin (September)
Park(ing) Day Grant Writing Sessions, Malden, MA (September)
Group Grant Writing Sessions, Somerville, MA (September)
Go Out Doors - Neighbors, Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, MA (June-October)
Go Out Doors - Neighbors, Concord, MA (June-October)
Spring Fling, fundraising program for Vault artists (May)
Malden Dance Mile, Malden, MA (May)
NACHMO Boston Live Performances, Cambridge, MA (March)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
NACHMO Boston, Co-Producer (January)
2021
Empower One Another, Collaboration with Collective Moments Dance Company, Malden, MA (July)
aWays to Fathom: South Korea Edition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea (June-July)
Subcircle Summer Residency for New England Artists, sponsored through Covid Collaborations (Summer 2021)
aWays to Fathom: Middlesex County Edition, ArtWalk, Concord, MA (April-May)
Mass Cultural Council Festivals Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (April)
Mass Cultural Council Project Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (April)
Innovation and Learning Network Cohort, Invitation from the Mass Cultural Council (March-June)
Malden Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (February)
NACHMO Boston Informal Showing (February)
NACHMO Boston Design Workshops, Host (January-February)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Morgana Becker, NEFA (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Charles Baldwin (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Devereux Geiger (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Kelsey Griffith (January)
Mental Health Happy Hours, with Evolve Dynamicz and NACHMO Boston (January)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
NACHMO Boston, Co-Producer (January)
2020
Against the Odds Mentoring, Kim Holman (November-December)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, LCC Applications (November)
aMASSit Performance, a Covid Collaboration with The Dance Complex (October)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch (October)
Against the Odds Mentoring, Jessica Roseman (September-December)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch (August)
Empower One Another Panel, Funding and Fundraising (July)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Audience (July)
Karen Krolak joined the Dance and Disabilities Cohort at the Boston Dance Alliance (July)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Artist Fees/Fair Pay (July)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Rejections (June)
Collab Project, CICA 2020 New Media Arts Conference, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea (June)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Working Virtually (May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (National), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company through Covid Collaborations
(May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (Tri-State Area), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company through Covid Collaborations
(May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (Greater Boston Area), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company through Covid Collaborations (May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (Malden), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company sponsored by the Malden Cultural Council (May)
Create and Gather, sponsorship through Covid Collaborations with Lady BOS Productions (May)
Mentoring Collaboration with aMASSit, a Covid Collaboration, The Dance Complex (April-October)
Malden Dance Mile, in collaboration with OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (April) *
Organizational Mentoring, Nozama Dance Collective (March-July)
aMASSit Workshop, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (March)
Karen Krolak joined The Dance Complex Artist Advisory Panel (April)
Empower One Another, OnStage Dance Company & Nozama Dance Collective, Malden, MA (March) *
Drop In Classes, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (February-March)
Malden Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile, Malden, MA (February)
Company One Performance Pack, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA (February)
Medford Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Joy of Movement & Remember Me, Medford, MA (February)
NACHMO Boston Performance, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA (February)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (February)
Joy of Movement, Medford Council on Aging, Medford, MA (January-March) *
Catalyst Performance Pack, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (January)
Malden Reads, Malden, MA (January)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
* Cancelled, postponed or otherwise impacted by Covid-19)
2019
Day With(out) Art, Cyclorama, Boston, MA (December)
Luminarium Dance Company Performance Pack, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (December)
Funny Uncle/NutCracked Performance Pack, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (December)
Monthly Musing, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA (November)
DUMBO Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (October)
Birthday Party, Clary & Cimermanis Little Free Library, Malden, MA (October)
Lucidity sPork & Performance, Evolve Dynamix, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (October)
DS Arts Homecoming, Dover & Sherborn, MA (October)
Park(ing) Day, Malden, MA (September)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (September)
Uplift sPoRK, Nozama Dance Collective, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA (August)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (August)
What Is Love? sPoRK, OnStage Dance Company, Cambridge, MA (July)
Monthly Musing, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (July)
Drop In Classes, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (June-August)
Monthly Musing, Middlesex Fells, Medford, MA (June)
Collaboration on tours of The Dance Complex, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (June)
24hr ChoreoFest, co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA (June)
Karen Krolak joined the BDA Artist Advisory Panel (April)
Malden Dance Mile, co-hosted with OnStage Dance Company, part of ArtWeek MA, Malden, MA (April)
An Animated Edition of the Dictionary of Negative Space, Part of the I-ARE Residency, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (April)
Monthly Musing, Charles River, Boston, MA (April)
Empower One Another sPoRK, Nozama Dance Collective & OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (April)
I-ARE Residency Workshop, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT}, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, AcroStrong, Cambridge, MA (March)
An Animated Edition of the Dictionary of Negative Space Showing, Part of the I-ARE Residency, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (February)
I-ARE Residency Workshop, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
NACHMO Boston Performance, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT}, Groton School, Groton, MA (February)
Joy of Movement, Medford Council on Aging, Medford, MA (February-December)
Drop In Classes, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (January-February)
Dance Directors Resource Sharing, Empower One Another, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (January)
The Sketchbook Project, Volume #14, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY (January)
Monthly Musing, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA (January)
Musing in Collaboration with Groton School Dance Program, Groton School, Groton, MA (January)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
2018
Monthly Musing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (December)
NEFA’s Idea Swap, Worcester, MA (November)
Musing in Collaboration with Groton School Dance Program, Groton School, Groton, MA (November)
Monthly Musing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (November)
Groton School Dance, Noumenon performed by a Groton dance student, Groton, MA (November)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (October)
Musing in Collaboration with Groton School Dance Program, Groton School, Groton, MA (September)
Joy of Movement, Medford Council on Aging, Medford, MA (September-December)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (September)
re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT}, OnStage Summer Performance Series, Malden, MA (July)
Summer Musing Series, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (June-August)
OnStage Summer Performance Series Interviews (June-August)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (July)
Partnered with Clary and Cimermanis Little Library for Get Caught Reading Month Celebration (May)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (May)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (April)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (February)
NACHMO Boston Performance, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
National Choreography Month Boston Interviews (January)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (January)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
2017
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (December)
NEFA Idea Swap, Worchester, MA (November)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (November)
Tiny & Short, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (October)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (October)
Dancing on the Silver Screen, Medford Senior Center, Medford, MA (September)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (September)
Kickoff Monkeyhouse Choreography Mentorship Program (August)
Impulse Dance Center Alumni Musing Series, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (June-August)
Dancing on the Silver Screen, Medford Senior Center, Medford, MA (June-July)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge
(January)
2016
Partnered with Clary and Cimermanis Little Library for Get Caught Reading Month Celebration (May)
Kicked off #geochoreography campaign (May)
Produced If Not You, Who?, a benefit concert for the Multicultural Arts Center (March 25)
2015
Medford Arts and Culture Summit, Medford, MA (November 14)
Led Spork for Lumiarium’s Spektral, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (October 30)
Misplaced/Displaced, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (October 23 & 24)
What Was That?, Dumbo Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (October 10)
Dover Sherborn Arts Homecoming, Dover Sherborn High School , Dover, MA (October 2)
SKORT, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (September 30)
Choreodor, Mystic River Arts Festival, Medford MA (September 26)
Drouken & Back Going No Going Back, Hacking Arts Festival VIP Party, Cambridge MA (September 25)
SKORT, Endicott College, Beverly MA (September 22)
Featured in Social Giving September’s Community Building Campaign, online (September 13 -20)
Collaboration w/ Luminarium & Paradise Lost, 24 hr Choreofest, Cambridge MA (September 4)
Choreodor, Circle the Square, Medford MA (August 20)
SKORT, Impulse Dance Center, Natick MA (July 22)
SPORK Picnic, Natick, MA (July 19)
Name Dances & Community Costume building project, Circle the Square, Medford MA (June 18)
Groton Choreography Residency, Groton School, Groton MA (April – May)
Natick High School Choreography Internship, Natick MA (April – May)
SKORT , Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (March 15)
Led Spork for Paradise Lost, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (March 14)
What Was That?, NACHMO Boston, Cambridge, MA (February)
2014
Dance for World Community, Cambridge, MA (June 11)
Tonight, Guest Choreographers Series I, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (April 30)
Against the Odds, Springstep, Medford, MA (March 18-April 16)
Tap Workshop, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (March 1)
Improving Partnering, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (February 25-27)
Between Two Things, Green Street Studios Emerging Artists Concert, Cambridge, MA (February 10-11)
Music & Movement, Tufts University, Meford, MA (February 9)
Fidelius & Ululation, Cool New York Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (January 27-30)
Creative Movement Class, Sprinstep, Medford, MA (January 22-March 12)
2010
First Night, Boston, MA (December 31)
Movement at the Mills, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (November)
Cambridge Connections, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (November)
Improving Partnering, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (October)
Æ, Dance in the Fells, Winchester/Medford, MA (October)
Your Just Desserts, Natick, MA (September)
Youth Workshops, Mass Dance Festival, Boston & Amherst, MA (August)
Odds, Mass Dance Festival, Amherst, MA (August)
Anti-Ossification, Mass Dance Festival, Boston, MA (August)
ArtBeat, Davis Square, Somerville, MA (July)
Boomtown, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (July)
Artist in Residence, Springstep, Medford, MA (July)
Launch Moving With Meaning, Somerville Public Schools, Somerville, MA (June)
USD Lab Artist, Union Street Dance, Brooklyn, NY (May)
Residency, Groton School, Groton, MA (April)
Monkeyhouse launches C2C: Connect 2 Choreography with SCATV, Somerville, MA (April)
Monkeyhouse is listed Best Dance Company in Boston 2011 by the Boston Phoenix Reader’s Poll (April)
Monkeyhouse’s C2C Blog is nominated one of the top 50 blogs for dance students (March)
Karen is nominated for and IRNE for her choreography in Actor’s Shakespeare Project’s Coriolanus (February)
Anti-Ossificaion, Cool New York Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (February 5-6)
2009
Pochemuchka & Firk II, Cool New York Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (January 30-February 1)
2008
366, First Night Boston, John Hancock Hall, Boston, MA (December 31)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, New Horizons, Marlborough, MA (September 18)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Boylston Place, Newton, MA (September 11)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Waltham Crossing, Waltham, MA (August 4)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Carmel Terrace, Framingham, MA (August 1)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Youville Place, Lexington, MA (July 28)
Launched the Wicked Awesome Wikipedia Choreographers Campaign (July)
Created the Connect 2 Choreography blog (June)
2007
Avec Nous,concert by Green Street Space Grant Artists, Karen Krolak, Ruth Bronwen & Nathan Andary (October)
Received Space Grant from Green Street Studios June (October)
And What Do You Want?, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (June 29 & 30)
Anablep & Other Oddities, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, NH (April 13)
What's the Big Idea?, Pentangle Center For the Arts, Woodstock, VT (March 30)
New England Flower Expo Preview Party (March)
Anablep & Other Oddities, Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA (March 10)
2006
Anablep & Other Oddites, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA (Oct 13)
Costume Construction Workshop, SENSEastion Days, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (Oct 9)
Rethinking Success, Boston Dance Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA (Oct 1)
Crossroads Community Foundation/Youth in Philanthropy, Concord Academy, Concord, MA (Sept 26)
What's the Big Idea?, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA (July 28)
The Princess and the Papillion, Berkshire Athenaeum (July 19)
Are You Lucky?, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (March 17)
New England Flower Show Preview Party, Boston, MA (March 10)
What's The Big Idea?, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (February 20)
APAP - Jodi Kaplan Boutique Roster Showcase, City Center, Studio 4, New York, NY (January 21 & 23)
2005
First Night Boston, Boston, MA (December 31)
Arts & Business Council Volunteer Orientation Panel, Exchange Place, Boston, MA (November 2)
Chaulk One Up For The Arts, Boston, MA (August 16 & 18)
What's The Big Idea?, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA (August 12)
MetroWest NonProfit Grantwriting Workshop Performance,Garden in the Woods,Framingham MA(June 9)
Princess Pamplemousse, Hudson Library, Hudson, MA (May 5, 12, 19, 26)
Princess Pamplemousse, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (May 2-6)
CMAC Members Appreciation Night, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (April 28)
What's The Big Idea?, Saturday Morning Discovery Series, Walker Building, Marlborough, MA (April 2)
Always and a day... Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (February 4, 5, 11, 12)
APAP - Jodi Kaplan Boutique Roster Showcase, City Center, Studio 4, New York, NY (January 8 & 10)
Undone, Studio 111, Brooklyn, NY, (January 8)
2004
Princess Pamplemousse, Bacon Free Library, South Natick, MA (June 16 & 23)
Princess Pamplemousse, Dover Town Library, Dover, MA (May 5, 12, 19, 26)
Princess Pamplemousse, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Cambridge, MA (May 4, 11, 18, 25)
MayFair, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA (May 2, 2004)
Ahem. Aha! Hmmm... Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (February 13-14)
Hozh'q, Choreographer's Group. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (January 9-10)
2003
Anablep and Other Oddities, First Night Boston, John Hancock Hall, Boston, MA (December 31st)
Princess Pamplemousse , a site specific performance, Dance Month 2003, Cambridge, MA (thru May)
Agroof: an Oddyssey of Amorous Adventures in B-Flat, DIVAfest, Exit Stage, San Francisco (May 29 - 31)
Agroof: an Oddyssey of Amorous Adventures in B-Flat, CMAC, Cambridge, MA (February 14)
Agroof, PAL Hall, First Night Fall River, Fall River, MA
2002
Anablep & Other Oddities, Mobius, Boston, MA
Anablep & Other Oddities, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
Anablep & Other Oddities, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Exit on Taylor Theater, San Francisco, CA
ASPIC, New York International Fringe Festival, Culture Project Theater, New York, NY
Won Best Costume Design at the New York International Fringe Festival
Named a 2002 Exemplary Project by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for Somnambulists
Somnambulists, a site specific performance in Dover, MA; selected as an exemplary project by the MCC
Clinquant, Oasis Festival, Chashama Theater, New York, NY
Princess Pamplemousse , a site specific performance, Dance Month 2002, Cambridge, MA
What’s Next?, Arts First Festival, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA
Absolutely Abreast (abbreviated), First Night 2002, Boston Ballet Grand Ballroom, Boston, MA
2001
Awarded Local Cultural Council Grant form Dover, MA to create Somnabulists
Included on the Massachusetts Cultural Council Touring Roster and the New England States Touring Roster
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, sold out extended run at Mobius, Boston, MA
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Exit on Taylor Theater, San Francisco, CA
Absolutely Abreast (version 3.0), New York International Fringe Festival, Kraine Theater, New York, NY
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Wesley Church, Minneapolis, MN
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Playhouse Studio, Winnipeg, MB
Princess Pamplemousse, a site specific performance, Dance Month 2001, Cambridge, MA
Princess Pamplemousse, a site specific performance, New England Artist Trust, Woodstock, VT
2000
Absolutely Abreast (version 2.0), Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
_____[10] Skort, Cambridge, MA (June)
Groton School Short Works Festival, Noumenon performed by a Groton Theatre student, Groton, MA (May)
Malden Dance Mile, Malden, MA (May)
aMaSSiT Fundraising Program (April-May)
aMaSSiT Pitch Sessions, Cambridge, MA (April)
aMaSSiT, mentoring program with The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February-April)
INK in Motion, guest artist for Alive Dance Collective, Cambridge, MA (April)
NACHMO Boston Live Performances, Cambridge, MA (March)
Mass Cultural Council Project & Festivals Grant Recipient, NACHMO Boston (February)
Mass Cultural Council Project & Festivals Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (February)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
NACHMO Boston, Co-Producer (January)
2022
Brown Bag Lunch: JJ Omelaga (November)
Brown Bag Lunch: Jessica Roseman & Kim Holman (November)
Mentoring Matters Birthday Fundraiser (October)
Brown Bag Lunch: Kelsey Griffith (October)
Brown Bag Lunch: Sarah Duclos (October)
Brown Bag Lunch: Cheri Opperman (September)
Brown Bag Lunch: Charles G. Baldwin (September)
Park(ing) Day Grant Writing Sessions, Malden, MA (September)
Group Grant Writing Sessions, Somerville, MA (September)
Go Out Doors - Neighbors, Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, MA (June-October)
Go Out Doors - Neighbors, Concord, MA (June-October)
Spring Fling, fundraising program for Vault artists (May)
Malden Dance Mile, Malden, MA (May)
NACHMO Boston Live Performances, Cambridge, MA (March)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
NACHMO Boston, Co-Producer (January)
2021
Empower One Another, Collaboration with Collective Moments Dance Company, Malden, MA (July)
aWays to Fathom: South Korea Edition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea (June-July)
Subcircle Summer Residency for New England Artists, sponsored through Covid Collaborations (Summer 2021)
aWays to Fathom: Middlesex County Edition, ArtWalk, Concord, MA (April-May)
Mass Cultural Council Festivals Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (April)
Mass Cultural Council Project Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (April)
Innovation and Learning Network Cohort, Invitation from the Mass Cultural Council (March-June)
Malden Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile (February)
NACHMO Boston Informal Showing (February)
NACHMO Boston Design Workshops, Host (January-February)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Morgana Becker, NEFA (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Charles Baldwin (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Devereux Geiger (January)
Brown Bag Lunch, Guest Speaker - Kelsey Griffith (January)
Mental Health Happy Hours, with Evolve Dynamicz and NACHMO Boston (January)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
NACHMO Boston, Co-Producer (January)
2020
Against the Odds Mentoring, Kim Holman (November-December)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, LCC Applications (November)
aMASSit Performance, a Covid Collaboration with The Dance Complex (October)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch (October)
Against the Odds Mentoring, Jessica Roseman (September-December)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch (August)
Empower One Another Panel, Funding and Fundraising (July)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Audience (July)
Karen Krolak joined the Dance and Disabilities Cohort at the Boston Dance Alliance (July)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Artist Fees/Fair Pay (July)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Rejections (June)
Collab Project, CICA 2020 New Media Arts Conference, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea (June)
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch, Working Virtually (May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (National), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company through Covid Collaborations
(May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (Tri-State Area), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company through Covid Collaborations
(May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (Greater Boston Area), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company through Covid Collaborations (May)
Virtual 24hr Choreofest (Malden), co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company sponsored by the Malden Cultural Council (May)
Create and Gather, sponsorship through Covid Collaborations with Lady BOS Productions (May)
Mentoring Collaboration with aMASSit, a Covid Collaboration, The Dance Complex (April-October)
Malden Dance Mile, in collaboration with OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (April) *
Organizational Mentoring, Nozama Dance Collective (March-July)
aMASSit Workshop, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (March)
Karen Krolak joined The Dance Complex Artist Advisory Panel (April)
Empower One Another, OnStage Dance Company & Nozama Dance Collective, Malden, MA (March) *
Drop In Classes, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (February-March)
Malden Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Malden Dance Mile, Malden, MA (February)
Company One Performance Pack, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA (February)
Medford Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Joy of Movement & Remember Me, Medford, MA (February)
NACHMO Boston Performance, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA (February)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (February)
Joy of Movement, Medford Council on Aging, Medford, MA (January-March) *
Catalyst Performance Pack, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (January)
Malden Reads, Malden, MA (January)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
NACHMO Boston, Mentoring Participating Artists (January)
* Cancelled, postponed or otherwise impacted by Covid-19)
2019
Day With(out) Art, Cyclorama, Boston, MA (December)
Luminarium Dance Company Performance Pack, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (December)
Funny Uncle/NutCracked Performance Pack, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (December)
Monthly Musing, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA (November)
DUMBO Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (October)
Birthday Party, Clary & Cimermanis Little Free Library, Malden, MA (October)
Lucidity sPork & Performance, Evolve Dynamix, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (October)
DS Arts Homecoming, Dover & Sherborn, MA (October)
Park(ing) Day, Malden, MA (September)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (September)
Uplift sPoRK, Nozama Dance Collective, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA (August)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (August)
What Is Love? sPoRK, OnStage Dance Company, Cambridge, MA (July)
Monthly Musing, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (July)
Drop In Classes, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (June-August)
Monthly Musing, Middlesex Fells, Medford, MA (June)
Collaboration on tours of The Dance Complex, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (June)
24hr ChoreoFest, co-hosted with Luminarium Dance Company, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA (June)
Karen Krolak joined the BDA Artist Advisory Panel (April)
Malden Dance Mile, co-hosted with OnStage Dance Company, part of ArtWeek MA, Malden, MA (April)
An Animated Edition of the Dictionary of Negative Space, Part of the I-ARE Residency, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (April)
Monthly Musing, Charles River, Boston, MA (April)
Empower One Another sPoRK, Nozama Dance Collective & OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (April)
I-ARE Residency Workshop, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT}, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, AcroStrong, Cambridge, MA (March)
An Animated Edition of the Dictionary of Negative Space Showing, Part of the I-ARE Residency, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (February)
I-ARE Residency Workshop, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
NACHMO Boston Performance, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT}, Groton School, Groton, MA (February)
Joy of Movement, Medford Council on Aging, Medford, MA (February-December)
Drop In Classes, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (January-February)
Dance Directors Resource Sharing, Empower One Another, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (January)
The Sketchbook Project, Volume #14, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY (January)
Monthly Musing, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA (January)
Musing in Collaboration with Groton School Dance Program, Groton School, Groton, MA (January)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
2018
Monthly Musing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (December)
NEFA’s Idea Swap, Worcester, MA (November)
Musing in Collaboration with Groton School Dance Program, Groton School, Groton, MA (November)
Monthly Musing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (November)
Groton School Dance, Noumenon performed by a Groton dance student, Groton, MA (November)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (October)
Musing in Collaboration with Groton School Dance Program, Groton School, Groton, MA (September)
Joy of Movement, Medford Council on Aging, Medford, MA (September-December)
Monthly Musing, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (September)
re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT}, OnStage Summer Performance Series, Malden, MA (July)
Summer Musing Series, OnStage Dance Company, Malden, MA (June-August)
OnStage Summer Performance Series Interviews (June-August)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (July)
Partnered with Clary and Cimermanis Little Library for Get Caught Reading Month Celebration (May)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (May)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (April)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (March)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (February)
NACHMO Boston Performance, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (February)
National Choreography Month Boston Interviews (January)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (January)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge (January)
2017
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (December)
NEFA Idea Swap, Worchester, MA (November)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (November)
Tiny & Short, The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (October)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (October)
Dancing on the Silver Screen, Medford Senior Center, Medford, MA (September)
Monthly Musing, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (September)
Kickoff Monkeyhouse Choreography Mentorship Program (August)
Impulse Dance Center Alumni Musing Series, Impulse Dance Center, Natick, MA (June-August)
Dancing on the Silver Screen, Medford Senior Center, Medford, MA (June-July)
#MonkeyhouseNACHMOChallenge
(January)
2016
Partnered with Clary and Cimermanis Little Library for Get Caught Reading Month Celebration (May)
Kicked off #geochoreography campaign (May)
Produced If Not You, Who?, a benefit concert for the Multicultural Arts Center (March 25)
2015
Medford Arts and Culture Summit, Medford, MA (November 14)
Led Spork for Lumiarium’s Spektral, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (October 30)
Misplaced/Displaced, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (October 23 & 24)
What Was That?, Dumbo Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (October 10)
Dover Sherborn Arts Homecoming, Dover Sherborn High School , Dover, MA (October 2)
SKORT, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (September 30)
Choreodor, Mystic River Arts Festival, Medford MA (September 26)
Drouken & Back Going No Going Back, Hacking Arts Festival VIP Party, Cambridge MA (September 25)
SKORT, Endicott College, Beverly MA (September 22)
Featured in Social Giving September’s Community Building Campaign, online (September 13 -20)
Collaboration w/ Luminarium & Paradise Lost, 24 hr Choreofest, Cambridge MA (September 4)
Choreodor, Circle the Square, Medford MA (August 20)
SKORT, Impulse Dance Center, Natick MA (July 22)
SPORK Picnic, Natick, MA (July 19)
Name Dances & Community Costume building project, Circle the Square, Medford MA (June 18)
Groton Choreography Residency, Groton School, Groton MA (April – May)
Natick High School Choreography Internship, Natick MA (April – May)
SKORT , Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (March 15)
Led Spork for Paradise Lost, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA (March 14)
What Was That?, NACHMO Boston, Cambridge, MA (February)
2014
Dance for World Community, Cambridge, MA (June 11)
Tonight, Guest Choreographers Series I, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (April 30)
Against the Odds, Springstep, Medford, MA (March 18-April 16)
Tap Workshop, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (March 1)
Improving Partnering, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (February 25-27)
Between Two Things, Green Street Studios Emerging Artists Concert, Cambridge, MA (February 10-11)
Music & Movement, Tufts University, Meford, MA (February 9)
Fidelius & Ululation, Cool New York Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (January 27-30)
Creative Movement Class, Sprinstep, Medford, MA (January 22-March 12)
2010
First Night, Boston, MA (December 31)
Movement at the Mills, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (November)
Cambridge Connections, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (November)
Improving Partnering, Endicott College, Beverly, MA (October)
Æ, Dance in the Fells, Winchester/Medford, MA (October)
Your Just Desserts, Natick, MA (September)
Youth Workshops, Mass Dance Festival, Boston & Amherst, MA (August)
Odds, Mass Dance Festival, Amherst, MA (August)
Anti-Ossification, Mass Dance Festival, Boston, MA (August)
ArtBeat, Davis Square, Somerville, MA (July)
Boomtown, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (July)
Artist in Residence, Springstep, Medford, MA (July)
Launch Moving With Meaning, Somerville Public Schools, Somerville, MA (June)
USD Lab Artist, Union Street Dance, Brooklyn, NY (May)
Residency, Groton School, Groton, MA (April)
Monkeyhouse launches C2C: Connect 2 Choreography with SCATV, Somerville, MA (April)
Monkeyhouse is listed Best Dance Company in Boston 2011 by the Boston Phoenix Reader’s Poll (April)
Monkeyhouse’s C2C Blog is nominated one of the top 50 blogs for dance students (March)
Karen is nominated for and IRNE for her choreography in Actor’s Shakespeare Project’s Coriolanus (February)
Anti-Ossificaion, Cool New York Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (February 5-6)
2009
Pochemuchka & Firk II, Cool New York Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY (January 30-February 1)
2008
366, First Night Boston, John Hancock Hall, Boston, MA (December 31)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, New Horizons, Marlborough, MA (September 18)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Boylston Place, Newton, MA (September 11)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Waltham Crossing, Waltham, MA (August 4)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Carmel Terrace, Framingham, MA (August 1)
Dream to Dance At Any Age, Youville Place, Lexington, MA (July 28)
Launched the Wicked Awesome Wikipedia Choreographers Campaign (July)
Created the Connect 2 Choreography blog (June)
2007
Avec Nous,concert by Green Street Space Grant Artists, Karen Krolak, Ruth Bronwen & Nathan Andary (October)
Received Space Grant from Green Street Studios June (October)
And What Do You Want?, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (June 29 & 30)
Anablep & Other Oddities, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, NH (April 13)
What's the Big Idea?, Pentangle Center For the Arts, Woodstock, VT (March 30)
New England Flower Expo Preview Party (March)
Anablep & Other Oddities, Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA (March 10)
2006
Anablep & Other Oddites, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA (Oct 13)
Costume Construction Workshop, SENSEastion Days, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (Oct 9)
Rethinking Success, Boston Dance Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA (Oct 1)
Crossroads Community Foundation/Youth in Philanthropy, Concord Academy, Concord, MA (Sept 26)
What's the Big Idea?, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA (July 28)
The Princess and the Papillion, Berkshire Athenaeum (July 19)
Are You Lucky?, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (March 17)
New England Flower Show Preview Party, Boston, MA (March 10)
What's The Big Idea?, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (February 20)
APAP - Jodi Kaplan Boutique Roster Showcase, City Center, Studio 4, New York, NY (January 21 & 23)
2005
First Night Boston, Boston, MA (December 31)
Arts & Business Council Volunteer Orientation Panel, Exchange Place, Boston, MA (November 2)
Chaulk One Up For The Arts, Boston, MA (August 16 & 18)
What's The Big Idea?, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA (August 12)
MetroWest NonProfit Grantwriting Workshop Performance,Garden in the Woods,Framingham MA(June 9)
Princess Pamplemousse, Hudson Library, Hudson, MA (May 5, 12, 19, 26)
Princess Pamplemousse, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (May 2-6)
CMAC Members Appreciation Night, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (April 28)
What's The Big Idea?, Saturday Morning Discovery Series, Walker Building, Marlborough, MA (April 2)
Always and a day... Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (February 4, 5, 11, 12)
APAP - Jodi Kaplan Boutique Roster Showcase, City Center, Studio 4, New York, NY (January 8 & 10)
Undone, Studio 111, Brooklyn, NY, (January 8)
2004
Princess Pamplemousse, Bacon Free Library, South Natick, MA (June 16 & 23)
Princess Pamplemousse, Dover Town Library, Dover, MA (May 5, 12, 19, 26)
Princess Pamplemousse, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Cambridge, MA (May 4, 11, 18, 25)
MayFair, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA (May 2, 2004)
Ahem. Aha! Hmmm... Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (February 13-14)
Hozh'q, Choreographer's Group. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (January 9-10)
2003
Anablep and Other Oddities, First Night Boston, John Hancock Hall, Boston, MA (December 31st)
Princess Pamplemousse , a site specific performance, Dance Month 2003, Cambridge, MA (thru May)
Agroof: an Oddyssey of Amorous Adventures in B-Flat, DIVAfest, Exit Stage, San Francisco (May 29 - 31)
Agroof: an Oddyssey of Amorous Adventures in B-Flat, CMAC, Cambridge, MA (February 14)
Agroof, PAL Hall, First Night Fall River, Fall River, MA
2002
Anablep & Other Oddities, Mobius, Boston, MA
Anablep & Other Oddities, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
Anablep & Other Oddities, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Exit on Taylor Theater, San Francisco, CA
ASPIC, New York International Fringe Festival, Culture Project Theater, New York, NY
Won Best Costume Design at the New York International Fringe Festival
Named a 2002 Exemplary Project by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for Somnambulists
Somnambulists, a site specific performance in Dover, MA; selected as an exemplary project by the MCC
Clinquant, Oasis Festival, Chashama Theater, New York, NY
Princess Pamplemousse , a site specific performance, Dance Month 2002, Cambridge, MA
What’s Next?, Arts First Festival, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA
Absolutely Abreast (abbreviated), First Night 2002, Boston Ballet Grand Ballroom, Boston, MA
2001
Awarded Local Cultural Council Grant form Dover, MA to create Somnabulists
Included on the Massachusetts Cultural Council Touring Roster and the New England States Touring Roster
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, sold out extended run at Mobius, Boston, MA
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Exit on Taylor Theater, San Francisco, CA
Absolutely Abreast (version 3.0), New York International Fringe Festival, Kraine Theater, New York, NY
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Wesley Church, Minneapolis, MN
Another Femme Fatale Freak Show, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Playhouse Studio, Winnipeg, MB
Princess Pamplemousse, a site specific performance, Dance Month 2001, Cambridge, MA
Princess Pamplemousse, a site specific performance, New England Artist Trust, Woodstock, VT
2000
Absolutely Abreast (version 2.0), Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA