Karen Jamieson

Karen Jamieson (born July 10, 1946) is a Canadian dancer, choreographer, and mentor located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

[4] Her work Sisyphus was named one of the 10 Canadian choreographic masterworks of the 20th century by Dance Collection Danse, and multi-year projects with the Haida village of Skidegate B.C.

She was a founding member of Terminal City Dance, which originally also consisted of Marion-Lea Dahl, Peggy Florin, Terry Hunter, Menlo MacFarlane, Michael Sawyer, and Savannah Walling.

The company was located at 901 Main St. and had seven members at the time of its founding: Karen Jamieson, Paulette Bibeau, Alison Crawford, Jay Hirabayashi, Lyne Lanthier, Aaron Shields, and Tom Stroud.

Notable works in these areas by Jamieson include Passage (1990), Gawa Gyani (1991), The River (1996), Stone Soup (1997), Necessary Encounter (1999), Raven of the Railway (2001), Quest (2003), The Skidegate Project (2002-2005), Percy Gladstone Memorial Dance (2005), Elmer & Coyote (2005), and Collision (2008-2011).