Culture Matters in Malden - Episode #5 - Karen Krolak | Choreographing Community

Malden is fortunate to be home to Karen Krolak, a creative spirit who has many ideas about how to increase trust and improve communication as a community. Krolak believes that "we could be more articulate with our bodies and use them for a better benefit if we had more intelligence about the way we were using them." By admission, Karen Krolak is a "free range collaborator," meaning she creates with a variety of people across sectors, artistic disciplines, region, space, and themes. Voraciously curious, Krolak follows her creative muse to unique projects in and around Boston and sometimes further: Korea, Morocco, England, or other parts of the globe. She is always up to something interesting; as she says, "you simply never know what will happen next around me." With a BA in linguistics and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Krolak draws from many tools, talents, and training to carry out interesting projects most often using dance and choreography. As Founder and Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse, she helps equip society to "move with meaning" and care through innovative applications of choreography. More about Karen Krolak: http://karenkrolak.com or http://monkeyhouselovesme.com Details about this and other episodes, http://matv.org/culturematters Hosts: Papi Xampeux and Ose Schwab Producer: Ose Schwab Recorded in the Podcast Suite at Urban Media Arts (UMA) Date: May 6, 2020 Recorded: Winter 2019