"A
gifted mime artist"! So says Marcel Marceau of unique,world class
mime artist Karen "Karina" Lorshbough. Introduced to the art
of pantomime in ballet school at the age of 5, Karen was greatly inspired
by the physical performances of Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Dick Van
Dyke and Marcel Marceau.
From
Buffalo, New York, Karen trained with the Joffery Ballet School, American
Ballet Theatre School, Canadian Mime Theatre School, Claude Kipnis and
Marcel Marceau. She went on to tour internationally with the Florida
Ballet, the Israel Ballet and Opera, Theatre Mask Ensemble and the Claude
Kipnis Mime Theatre performing numerous character roles on the concert
stage. In 1996 Karen appeared on "Seinfeld".
Karen
tours elementary schools throughout the United States presenting her
very successful one woman educational program that encourages and thrills
children into writing a story! Students write the stories and Karen
in turn acts them out. If you blink an eye you can miss a joke - or
discover profound humanity - in silence. Karen expresses herself with
confident physicality and never fails to impress with her great sense
of fun both physically and verbally. She inspires her audiences by showing
what can be said without saying a word!