Karine Saporta is a French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director.
Saporta was born in France to a mother of Russian ancestry and a Spanish father.
She founded the Compagnie Karine Saporta in order to redefine contemporary modern dance.
She is a professor at the Art and Music Department of the University of Evry, president of the Dance Commission, vice-president of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers in France (SACD), and artistic director of choreographic performances at the Festival d'Avignon.
She has also choreographed to music by Michael Nyman in her opera-ballet La Princesse de Milan.