Spotlight Six Spring 2025

  ^{Based in Malden, MA}

karen Krolak (she/her - Care-wren Crow-lock) is a free range collaborator who lives with a dynamic disability and an infectious laugh. She’s a midcentury Euro-mutt with an unruly silver mane, a futuristic tripod walker and pockets stuffed with craft supplies. Whether working in dance, crafts, visual arts, theatrical design, or writing, her embodied explorations spark dialogues that reverberate between communities and have been presented abroad in Italy, the UK, Canada, India, and S. Korea, as well as nationally and throughout New England. She is an interdisciplinary artist can be hired for artistic commissions, mentoring opportunities, craftivism workshops, dramaturgy projects, and grant panels.

  ^{Based in Hamden, CT}

Since 2015, kamrDANCE has been intricately fusing tap and contemporary dance to tell stories about questioning identity, our relationships with our bodies, communities we build, family legacy, and more. kamrDANCE’s choreographic works utilize the power of tap dance as music, along with original poetry, text, music, and physical theater. Under the direction of Artistic Director and Choreographer Alexis Robbins, kamrDANCE has performed at venues, events, and online performances throughout the northeast, created five dance films, and self-produced several, sold out evening length and split bill shows.

  ^{Based in Jaffrey, NH} 

Paige is a Teaching Artist and Motivational Speaker. She is listed on the New Hampshire education roster and has taught theater workshops in collegiate seminars, K-12 schools, senior centers, preschools, children's museums, youth and professional theater master classes and to non-actors of all ages. Paige has led summer camps, after school programs, in school arts residencies and many community-based workshops. Her signature workshop ”COSMIC IMPROV" incorporates healing and laughter while using play-based games, non-violent communication and guided meditations to release stress, hurts and frustrations in a fun and safe zone.