karen Krolak

Karen Krolak (she/her – pronounced Care – wren Crow- lock) is a free range collaborator who lives with a dynamic disability and an infectious laugh. She’s a midcentury Euro-mutt with an unruly silver mane, a futuristic tripod walker and a bag stuffed with craft supplies.. She is the Founder/co-Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse, an award winning nonprofit that connects communities with choreography. Her ongoing project, the Dictionary of Negative Space (DoNS) holds space for the words that the English language lacks for grief, trauma, and repair. DoNS offers refuge for mourners grappling with complicated grief and became even more relevant as the COVID 19 pandemic rewrote rules about death, dying, and mourning. karen is a co-producer of NACHMO Boston, co-director of aMaSSiT at The Dance Complex, a Board member for The Flavor Continues and Boston Dance Alliance, an Advisor for The Black Arts Sanctuary, Subcircle and Rasik, a dramaturg for Jessica Roseman, Human Movement Project, Simon Montalvo, and a freelance audio describer.