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	Karen Kain - Canadian Women in Theatre and Dance - Celebrating Women's Achievements
		Karen Kain was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1951, the oldest of 4 children.
		Karen Kain is known in the world of ballet as being extremely dedicated to the art -- a workaholic and perfectionist.
		Kain is motivated by her desire to carry the message of the ballet to all the people of her country, from all backgrounds and all walks of life.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-603-e.html (1002 words)

	Kain, Karen
		Kain, Karen Alexandria, dancer, ballet director (b at Hamilton, Ont 28 Mar 1951).
		Kain's performing career lasted well beyond the norm for ballerinas, and although she relinquished major roles to which she felt herself no longer suited, her dancing beyond age 40 blossomed into new dimensions of creativity, dramatic complexity and emotional depth.
		Nevertheless, in 1996 Kain announced her intention to retire as a full-time principal dancer with the company, prompting the impresario Garth DRABINSKY to celebrate her accomplishments by producing a cross-Canada farewell tour in the summer and early fall of 1997.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004210 (859 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Karen Kain leaps into new role
		To the surprise of very few, Karen Kain, who retired as principal dancer in 1997, was named yesterday by board chair David Bank to replace James Kudelka as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, effective July 1.
		While Kain's career as Canada's foremost ballerina has certainly given her a strong feel for the National Ballet's past, it is the company's future that concerns her most as she assumes control of the company that has been her artistic and professional home for her entire career.
		Kain is determined to reconnect with ballet audiences across the country and around the world through smaller national tours and more targeted international touring.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/2005/06/24/pf-1102454.html (598 words)

	Karen Kain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karen Kain, CC (born on March 28, 1951) is a Canadian ballet dancer.
		Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Kain began training to become a ballet dancer at the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto in 1962.
		Kain's brother, Kevin Kain, is a noted tropical medicine expert based in Toronto, Ontario.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karen_Kain (389 words)

	Karen Kain
		Karen Kain was born on March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario and began training to become a ballerina at the National Ballet School of Canada[?] in Toronto, Canada in 1962, graduating in 1969.
		After graduation she joined the National Ballet of Canada[?], where she became Principal Dancer[?] in 1971, dancing central roles in a wide array of ballets, eventually becoming the most well-known dancer in Canada.
		Kain returned to the National Ballet of Canada[?], now as part of the senior management team.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Karen_Kain.html (293 words)

	Karen Kain Relationships
		Karen Kain often tries to "cheer up" or offer philosophical advice to those who are hurting, but she unwittingly avoids or ignores the emotions involved.
		Karen Kain tends to surround herself with people who are gentle, sensitive, peace loving, and artistically or spiritually inclined, and there is a strong element of mutual compassion and sympathy in her personal relationships.
		Karen Kain responds intensely to beauty and physical appearance, and the physical attractiveness of her partner is very important to her.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Karen_Kain.asp (878 words)

	The silver princess of Canadian dance. (Karen Kain) - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Noted dancer Karen Kain, the pride of National Ballet of Canada, marks her 25th anniversary as a professional dancer in 1995.
		Kain recalls these bleak years as a time of re-evaluation: "I've always been vulnerable, and all the acclaim and attention I was getting put pressures on me that I couldn't handle.
		Kain is one of the most honored representatives of the arts in the country.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-16885333.html (1884 words)

	Toronto Congress Centre : Karen Kain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kain, Karen, Dancer (born at Hamilton 28 March 1951).
		One of Canada's finest dancers, Kain graduated from the National Ballet School in 1969 and became a principal of the National Ballet of Canada in her second season when she danced the Swan Queen in Swan Lake.
		Kain's strong technique, breadth of movement, sensitive musicality and daring attack are widely admired in both classical and contemporary works.
	www.torontocongresscentre.com /default.aspx?page=bio-kkain (186 words)

	Amazon.ca: Karen Kain: Movement Never Lies: Books: Karen Kain,Stephen Godfrey,Penelope Reed Doob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Karen Kain is an internationally renowned ballerina who became Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada in 1970.
		Karen Kain is the Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts.
		Kain is well aware of the alignment of the stars the night she took to the stage in her first principal role and she is as gracious, lovely and endearing today as she was being christened in Ms.
	www.amazon.ca /Karen-Kain-Movement-Never-Lies/dp/0771045751 (602 words)

	A star moves on - News - Karen Kain guest teacher at National Ballet School of Canada Dance Magazine - Find Articles
		Kain, 51, is now spreading her wings as a guest teacher at her alma mater, Canada's National Ballet School.
		Kain, who leaves her job at the company three times a week to travel uptown to the school, was propelled by artistic urges.
		Kain's enormous stature was reflected in the star-struck faces of the ballerina wannabes transfixed in the studio doorway.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_2_77/ai_97174098 (642 words)

	Karen Kain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From an early age, Kain vowed she would be a future ballerina.
		She was accepted into the National Ballet School in Toronto at the age 11.
		Kain remains today as a living icon in the world of ballet dancing.
	www.canada-heros.com /kain_karen.html (158 words)

	Karen Kain - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Karen Kain, CC was born on March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario and began training to become a ballerina at the National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada in 1962, graduating in 1969.
		She has worked as a guest artist with Roland Petit's Le Ballet National de Marseilles, the Bolshoi Ballet, the London Festival Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, and Eliot Feld Ballet.
		Kain returned to the National Ballet of Canada as part of the senior management team.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/k/a/r/Karen_Kain_4c7a.html (332 words)

	Karen Kain - Artistic Director
		Kain’s accomplishments as well as consideration of other candidates who might have been available against a list of key attributes the position requires.
		Kain is a Companion of the Order of Canada and has received numerous prestigious awards both here and abroad for her artistic accomplishments and cultural work.
		Kain was appointed Chair of Canada Council for the Arts in September 2004 and she will continue in that role.
	www.echoworld.com /B05/B0507/B0507-1NBallet.htm (841 words)

	The National Ballet of Canada \| Media \| The Artistic Staff Bios \| Karen Kain
		Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, is one of those rare individuals whose contributions to Canada’s cultural life have encompassed both of these fields of endeavour—artist and arts advocate—and who has served both roles with the same unswerving sense of commitment and enriching passion.
		Kain won the Silver Medal in the Women’s Category at the prestigious International Ballet Competition in Moscow and, along with her frequent partner at the time, Frank Augustyn, was also awarded a special prize for Best Pas de Deux.
		Kain has received numerous national and international awards, both for her work as a performer and her tireless efforts as an advocate for the arts and cultural development.
	www.national.ballet.ca /media.php?artistic-staff/karen_kain-bio (684 words)

	Karen Kain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in Hamilton ON, Kain is known as Canada's best ever prima ballerina, and one of the world's finest.
		Also in that year, Kain and Frank Augustyn, her most frequent partner, journeyed to Moscow to compete in the second International Ballet Competition in Moscow.
		Kain won the Silver Medal in the Women's Category and together they were awarded the Silver Medal for Best Pas de Deux.
	www.canadianstudies.ca /NewJapan/kain.html (220 words)

	The Canada Council for the Arts - Karen Kain Appointed Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts
		Kain’s vast experience and dedication to the arts make her an ideal choice as Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, said Minister Frulla.
		Kain, a nationally and internationally renowned ballerina, received her dance training at the National Ballet School and, after graduating in 1969, joined the National Ballet of Canada.
		Kain was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada and, in 1991, she was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada.
	www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2004/karen_kain.htm (367 words)

	Amazing Stories - Karen Kain
		One of Canada’s best-loved and most respected dancers of this century, Karen Kain’s rise to ballet stardom is an inspirational story of dedication and passion.
		Karen almost collapsed as she came flying past the backstage curtains.
		Karen had injured her right foot a few weeks earlier, landing poorly from a jump.
	www.amazingstories.ca /detail-karenkain.php (459 words)

	The silver princess of Canadian dance - Karen Kain Dance Magazine - Find Articles
		The role of the bored, restless older woman who takes a fancy to her son's tutor is one that Kain has coveted for years; for her the National's anniversary present is particularly sweet.
		Being five feet, seven inches tall may have precluded Kain's dancing with most of the international male stars of her generation, but her very considerable talents have graced original works created for her by choreographers who are helping to define twentieth-century ballet--Roland Petit, Eliot Feld, Tetley, John Neumeier, and Canada's sensational James Kudelka.
		Perhaps Tetley speaks for Kain's legions of admiring choreographers when he says, "It's almost as if Karen wills dances out of you because she's always twinned with you, not a step in advance or behind, and so eloquent in the things she says with just the quality of her movement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n5_v69/ai_16885333 (956 words)

	Karen Kain - Ballet Talk
		Snow Flake, Karen Kain just retired a few years ago, and was the principal (and much loved) ballerina of the National Ballet of Canada for many years.
		Karen Kain appears in the video of Rudolph Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty (Veronica Tennant as Aurora) in the Bluebird variations with Frank Augustyn- they won a silver medal at the Moscow IBC with this pdd I believe.
		Karen Kain is generally considered to be the best classical ballerina that Canada has ever produced.
	www.balletalert.com /forum/index.php?s=72380bd65f4aed02fe9b1fc844665663&showtopic=224 (748 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Jayna Incarnate by Jane Shoup
		Karen Kain walked into her office, clutching a stack of files and a Styrofoam cup half filled cup with lukewarm, fl coffee.
		Kain sat down with her files and scanned the contents of her desk; mentally noting, listing and prioritizing.
		Kain picked up the phone, buzzed her office assistant and ordered coffee, all the while watching Brooks pick at imaginary lint on her impecably tailored suit.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook33653.htm (1085 words)

	Karen Kain: The Birthday Ballerina - Gary Parks
		It's hard to believe, but Karen Kain, the Canadian wunderkind who made the dance world sit up and take notice at the Second Moscow International Ballet Competition, will celebrate her twentieth anniversary as a ballerina this season.
		That famous tourney in Moscow was staged in 1973, and Kain has been a leading light of the National Ballet of Canada almost from the moment she joined the company, in 1969.
		Yet Kain rose to star status so quickly and has remained firmly and dependably in the front ranks of Canada's largest ballet company for so long that some ballet-goers seem to think she's been around forever.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1988/november/Sa14658.htm (282 words)

	Why ballet? - Karen Kain, Prima Ballerina - CBC Archives
		Winnifred Kain first signed her six-year-old daughter up for ballet lessons to correct a slouching habit.
		• Kain was born in Hamilton on March 28, 1951.
		Kain had to leave home at the age of 11 to live in the National Ballet School residences.
	archives.radio-canada.ca /IDC-1-74-1002-5639/people/karen_kain/clip1 (268 words)

	FOOTNOTES - Karen Kain
		Karen won the Silver medal in the Woman's Competition and together they were awarded the Silver Medal for Best pas de Deux.
		A dancer of extraordinary talent and beauty, and acclaimed by critics throughout North America and Europe, Karen continues to bring fresh nuances to her roles, which encompass most of the major classical ballets and many of the best known contemporary works.
		In 1976 Karen became an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1991 she was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
	www.soundventure.com /web/footnotes/kain.html (241 words)

	Karen Kain
		From an early age, Kain vowed she would be a future ballerina.
		Kain appeared as guest star in many productions with major companies, including the Bolshoi, the London Festival Ballet, and Makarova & Company.
		Kain remains today as a living icon in the world of ballet dancing.
	deena.ca /kain_karen.html (158 words)

	Hamilton Spectator - Beauty is a joy forever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kain's familiar face is still exquisite, but audiences don't get to see it onstage anymore.
		These days Kain's major focus is on the opening of The Sleeping Beauty in the spanking new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto.
		Kain is staging the production this time, just as she did with the National's revival two years ago.
	www.hamiltonspectator.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=78a80cfe51200325&pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1162162210879 (1025 words)

	Canada's Walk of Fame: Karen Kain, ballerina
		There probably aren't enough adjectives to fully describe Karen Kain when she dances the ballet – they all pale next to the reality of what she does.
		Kain began her ballet training at the age of six.
		And even though it was through her partnership with the Soviet defecter, Russian-born Rudolph Nureyev that Kain gained the most international accolades, performing in Vienna, London and Australia, it was the partnership with Augustyn that remains at the heart of Canada's love affair with Kain.
	www.canadaswalkoffame.com /inductees/98_karen_kain.xml.htm (404 words)

	CriticalDance :: View topic - JAMES KUDELKA RESIGNS! KAREN KAIN APPOINTED
		Karen Kain is the main reason James Kudelka was appointed Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada in June of /96.
		Karen Kain should be crowned Artistic Director and James Kudelka should have the title of choreographer.
		However, while I’m not sure Karen Kain is the best choice as AD I’m betting that if she wants the job it’s hers for the taking.
	www.ballet-dance.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=23354 (1587 words)

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