karen malek
 

Karen has been an Examiner for ATOD for over 30 years, and is a Life Member.

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Karen feels privileged to be an Examiner for ATOD and loves nothing more than providing constructive reports for students and their teachers. She is a passionate educator and feels blessed every day to share the dance lives of the up and coming next generation of amazing dancers and young people.

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Karen is the immediate past President of ATOD and former President of ATODI. During her time as President and beyond she was Chair of Curriculum Development. She has been innovative in creating new resources in systems of training in the Performing Arts.

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Karen is Director of Education at Transit Dance – a full time training facility for pre professional dancers and teachers of dance in Melbourne. Karen is a graduate of The Australian Ballet School Teachers’ Course 1997. Karen has a Diploma of Dance Teaching & Management, Diploma of Management, Diploma of Musical Theatre, Cert IV in Business (Governance), a Cert IV in TAE, Working with Children Check and current 1st Aid Certificate.

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Karen delivers a short course in dance adjudication nationally.

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She is Patron of the Victorian Dance Festival and a lead Judge for the Australasian Dance Education Awards held annually. Karen has been an Adjudicator of the Performing Arts for over 30 years and a teacher of theatrical dance for over 50 years.