Daniel Karasik is an multidisciplinary artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his BFA in Dance from Point Park University, and his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a focus on dance for film from Wilson College. He is currently a Teaching Artist at Point Park University where he has taught for the past thirteen years.
Daniel has created more than 80 choreographies for stage which have been reviewed as “grace and beauty personified,” having “intellectual glamor,” and being “a wonderfully effective series of dance essays.” His work, Volumes, was in a performance named one of Pittsburgh’s “Seven Most Transportive Dance Programs of 2016.”
Karasik has provided artistic direction for the Morgantown Ballet Company and Dayton Arts Project. He has danced professionally in Pittsburgh, with Georgia Ballet, and Dayton Ballet. As a filmmaker, his most recent silent dance short, Le Spectre de la Rose, has been internationally awarded laurels for Best Dance Short, Best Direction, and Best Original Score.
Karasik teaches and choreographs throughout the United States, at companies, schools, and festivals such as American College Dance Festival, Bodytraffic, ChiArts, Dayton Ballet, Governor’s School for the Arts, National High School Dance Festival, ODC/Dance, Skidmore College, Steps on Broadway, University of Kansas City Missouri, Vashon Center for the Arts, and West Virginia University.
