Karen Francesca Silvano is a
graduate of the National Academy of Dance in her native Rome, Italy.
After a London experience at the Covent Garden School of Dance, she
moved to
New York, where she graduated from the Ailey School. Karen
Francesca has been dancing with several companies and independent
choreographers, such as Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Ramos
Dance, Kun Yang Lin, and I Giullari di Piazza, a company that
reconstructs theater, music, and dance productions from the Italian
Renaissance. She holds a B.A. in Romance Languages
and Literature and teaches Italian at Pasquack Valley High
School. She is honored to be the director and choreographer of CMDE's
Junior Repertory Company, and is grateful to the
CMDE family for allowing her to create so much choreography and
multimedia works.
