Karl Condon Joins Goh Ballet Academy's Summer Program Faculty

KARL CONDON will be a member of the faculty of the Goh Ballet Academy's Summer Program from July 4-16, 2016 in Vancouver, Canada.

KARL CONDON began his dance training at the Canterella School of Dance in his native Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Within two years, he joined the Berkshire Ballet, where he studied under Madeline Culpo. He also received a scholarship for three consecutive years from The Joffrey Ballet School in New York. Mr. Condon became a member of Boston Ballet II in 1980, and entered the Boston Ballet's corps de ballet in 1986. Mr. Condon was appointed a principal dancer in 1992.

Mr. Condon's most notable roles included Puck in the world premiere of Bruce Wells' A Midsummer Night's Dream; Espada, the Gypsy Boy, and Sancho Panza in Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote; Papa Thomas in La Fille Mal Gardee; Dr. Drosselmeyer, the Snow King, the Cavalier and Trepak in The Nutcracker; the Jester in the Dudinskaya/Sergeyev production of Swan Lake; Gurn in La Sylphide; Romeo and Tybalt in Choo San Goh's Romeo and Juliet; Lebo in Esmeralda Pas de Deux, the Grand Pas Hongrois in Fernando Bujones' Raymonda Act III, the Golden Slave in Fokine's Scheherazade, Jack-in-the-Box in the world premiere of Bruce Wells' and Bruce Marks' The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and principal roles in Balanchine's Tarantella, Bourree Fantasque, and Theme and Variations.

Mr. Condon's contemporary roles included the Third Movement in James Kudelka's Alliances, a Young Man in Maurice Bejart's The Rite of Spring, and principal roles in Bruce Marks' Inscape, William Forsythe's Love Songs, Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room and A Brief Fling, and Jiri Kylian's Symphony in D.

Mr. Condon has appeared as a guest artist with Ballet Mississippi, the Charleston (West Virginia) Ballet, in the International Ballet Celebration gala performances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee, partnering Dierdre Myles in Esmeralda Pas de Deux and E. Virginia Williams' Sea Alliance, with Fernando Bujones and Stars of the Boston Ballet 1990 Tour and with many other regional ballet companies in the United States. He has also coordinated and acted as artistic director for the Boston Ballet Dancers' Benefits.

In 1993 Mr. Condon was appointed principal dancer and artistic director of the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. With Metropolitan Ballet Theatre he reprised his success in the role of Puck in Bruce Wells' A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mr. Condon resigned from his position at Metropolitan Ballet Theatre in 1994 and in 1995 was appointed balletmaster and associate director of Ballet Memphis.

In 1998 Mr. Condon restaged Coppelia for Ballet Memphis and in 1999 Mr. Condon staged his production of The Nutcracker for Ballet Memphis. During the 2002-03 season Ballet Memphis presented Mr. Condon's world premieres South of Everywhere, and Murder on the Orient Express. During the 2003-04 season Ballet Memphis presented the world premieres of Mr. Condon's The Rescue and Broad Waters.

In 2013 Mr. Condon left Ballet Memphis to pursue a career as a freelance guest teacher and choreographer. In 2014 Mr. Condon was appointed Chair of the Dance Department of the NOCCA Institute.

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