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kara masters Quick Facts
Main Areas: dancing, dj'ing, facilitatingCareer Focus: dancer, dj, founder of fathom dance
Affiliation: awake-one, 5 rhythms, continuum
trusting that source is within and throughout everyone, kara masters,
m.a. is committed to dance as a way of experiencing serenity and union.
she has been dancing for over thirty years and teaching dance for
twenty.
she was interviewed on KPFK's aware show about her
workshops. she also offers movement through the art of daybreak:
multiarts outreach program. she has held dance therapy sessions for
women at homeless shelters and for teenagers and adults at hospitals,
in-patient facilities and out-patient centers. as both a contract and
substitute teacher in the public schools, she has worked at every grade
level as well as in special education. she has also taught dance
technique and improvisation at Masters Dance Academy, New Roads High
School and UCLA.
since a television debut in 1974, she has been in over fifty
performances on screen and stage with more than a dozen companies,
including Yes And, Trip Dance Theatre, ANOM, CoMMiT, Chopsticks and Sneakers, Art and Revolution and MASS Ensemble.
she was the motion-capture female lead for a Columbia Tri-Star film and
was featured in the internationally acclaimed documentary, Dances of Ecstasy.
she has studied dance at studios in New York and California, by
scholarship with the Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company and toward her
degrees: Bachelor of Arts in dance from Hamilton College and Master of
Arts in movement therapy from UCLA. enriching these studies have been
the practices of Continuum, Continuum Montage, the Five Rhythms,
Spiritweaves, Somatic Experiencing, yoga, acting, the work that
reconnects, Tai Chi and massage therapy at IPSB. kara's work has been
informed and inspired over the years by so many to whom she's
unfathomably grateful, including Cass Phelps, Michael Molin-Skelton,
Susan Harper, Camille Maurine, Emilie Conrad, Irma Dosamantes, Pamela
Fairweather, Elaine Heekin, Monica Favand, the mystic poets and
everyone who's dancing…
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from kara masters
what is fathom dance?
fathom dance is an opportunity to move to the beat of your own passionate heart and
be in rhythm with a compassionate community. kara masters holds the
space for this to happen and, as dj seven, she spins soul, world,
sacred, funk, trance, swing, r and b, latin and more…whether you've
been dancing around your living room, in secret dreams or on stages,
you're welcome here. you'll be on the dance floor with friends from
eighteen to eighty-something, from all vocations, creeds and cultures.
in bare feet and comfy clothes, we all dive into the ocean of dance,
first settling in its still depths then being taken by its currents,
crests and waves till finally floating.
originally founded in 1998 as dancing to the edges, this prayer-play-practice has been called in sync, pulse and a-maze,
moving from studios in venice, santa barbara, santa monica and topanga
to retreat centers in zaca lake, ojai and cusco, peru and accompanied
by such accomplished musicians as andrew werderitsch, suzanne teng and
mystic journey, jamie papish of the yuval ron ensemble, emile hassan
dyer, christopher pellani and fred samia. on valentine's in 2007, the
journey landed in fathom dance. this year, in concert with didjeridu-ings, we're creating barefoot boogie for families, and in summer 2009, we're celebrating fathom dance in retreat at the ojai foundation.
what is fathoming?
it's sound…it's the span of outstretched arms…it's understanding the
truth…it's penetrating and encompassing…and that's just what the
dictionary says…when we're on the dance floor, we're listening to the
language of silence in our spirit, music in the space and dance in our
heart… we're moving into the deepest serenity of self and out to the
fullest embrace of everyone…
what is dancing?
it's moving…in rhythm…from emotion…with grace…and, whether everything's
looking up or it looks like everything's going down, we can dance - get
down, get funky, get real…as much as it makes for a good sweat, dancing
is ultimately a way of experiencing that only love is real…
