Karen Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Karen Brown
Occupation	Field Hockey Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1963(1963-01-09)
Age	61
Birthplace	Redhill
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Karen Brown Biography

Karen Brown is one of the most popular and richest Field Hockey Player who was born on January 9, 1963 in Redhill, United Kingdom. Karen Brown (born 1955 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma) also known as Karen “KB” Brown is an award-winning ballerina, teacher and repetiteur, as well as a ballet mistress and director. Her fame is due to her lengthy time as the principal dancer in the Dance Theatre of Harlem and as the first woman of African descent to manage a ballet troupe.

While she was praised for raising the profile of Oakland Ballet and enhancing the technical capabilities of its dancers Brown had to deal with a growing deficit due to the loss of arts funding and the closure of the city’s main performance venue. In order to save Oakland Ballet itself from shuttering in 2004, she suspended the 2004 season, and instead focused on a successful fundraising campaign that enabled operations to begin again with a fresh lineup of dancers just in time for the year-long celebration of its 40th anniversary.

Brown graduated from St. Mary’s College of California in 2013.

Since 2018 she has returned to teaching and her research in analyzing movement.

Utilizing her experience in her role as the director for her personal arts administration company, Karenina, Brown entered the international search for an artistic director who would be the successor for Oakland Ballet. In 2000, she was formally invited by the board of the company to take over the direction of the organization and became the only African-American female to lead an organization of ballet in the history of ballet in addition to being the first black woman woman to lead a previously white owned ballet company. After the suspension of Dance Theatre of Harlem of operations in the year 2004, Brown was the only African-American artistic director of a ballet organization around the globe. In her time, Brown worked to diversify the dance’s cast so that it more closely was representative of the diverse population of Oakland. Brown also updated the repertoire of choreographers for the company as well as expanding the company’s financing structure to provide more stability in its finances.

Karen Brown Net Worth

Karen Brown is one of the richest Field Hockey Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karen Brown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After joining the Dance Theatre of Harlem as an apprentice in 1973, Brown quickly rose through the ranks, and accumulated many ballet repertoires. In 1984, she was praised in a piece by Jennifer Dunning in the New York Times for her versatility, describing her as “one of those dancers who is as compelling in plotless ballets as in dramatic works that require her to portray a character”. As the principal ballerina of DTH, Brown starred in many tours across the globe and in Russia. She was one of the very first American company to tour the country following the collapse of the Soviet Union. She also performed on the historic trip of DTH the South Africa, post-apartheid South Africa.

When she performed as part of DTH, Brown taught residencies and masterclasses in her role as an associate artist in Arthur Mitchell’s Dancing Through The Barriers program that was designed in order to teach dance for people from all backgrounds. Brown was part of the PBS documentary on the program, while she was teaching in The Kennedy Center. After 22 years of dancing for this company Brown was dismissed from Dance Theatre of Harlem at the conclusion of the 1995 season. She then decided to join the Atlanta Ballet Center for Dance Education as the director of diversity and education.

Brown departed Oakland in 2007 to join University of The Arts, Philadelphia as an assistant professor in dance. During her time in Philadelphia, Brown was awarded a $12,500 research grant to analyze dance movement through computer programming. While developing this research, she met the Lion King associate producer and former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater star, Aubrey Lynch II who later invited her to join the faculty of the Harlem School of The Arts. Concurrent with this time, she returned to her performance career, joining Paradigm, a dance company founded by Gus Solomon Jr to feature mature dancers. She was awarded a Bessie Award in 2010 for her performances with the group. In 2015, while visiting her hometown, Brown performed alongside her brother, the Broadway performer Russell Joel Brown, saxophonist Wycliffe Gordon, and opera diva Jessye Norman in a fundraiser at Augusta University for the Jessye Norman School of the Arts. The following year she was appointed executive director of Garth Fagan Dance. In 2017 she was invited to Ballet Wichita as guest artistic director. Later that year she was awarded the Harriet Tubman Freedom Award.

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Karen Ranked on the list of most popular Field Hockey Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Karen Brown celebrates birthday on January 9 of every year.