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"Fabulous humor often combined with tender poetry or a dash of romance... [Karen Montanaro is] a supple ballerina of fully-matured technique."
- Saarbrucker Zeitung, Germany

Karen Hurll Montanaro received her early dance training at the Cantarella School of Dance with Madeline Cantarella Culpo and with Andrea Stark, a former director of the Ram Island Dance Company.

She also studied on scholarship with the Joffrey School of Ballet and has danced professionally with the Ohio Ballet and the Darmstadt Opera Ballet in Germany.

Karen is currently a principal dancer with the Portland Ballet Company in Portland, Maine.
"...refined, sensual, mysterious."
- York County Star, Maine, U.S.A.


"...certain of the mark, precise in every gesture, dominating in her roles."
- Darmstadter Tagblatt, Germany


"...a delight!"
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, U.S.A.
For the past fifteen years, she collaborated and performed extensively with world renowned mime and performing artist, Tony Montanaro. She was the "word-smith" for Mr. Montanaro’s book "Mime Spoken Here," published in 1995.

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