Karen MacIntyre

Karen MacIntyre holds an MFA in Dance from TWU, a BFA in Dance from UT and is a certified Montessori teacher. She owns and directs Green Space Arts Collective in Denton, which provides a safe and supportive environment for individual artists and not-for-profit organizations to rehearse, teach, perform new work and engage in dialogue with their peers. 

MacIntyre taught in Dance at the University of North Texas (2009-2016), Tarrant County Community NW and NE campuses (2009-2011) and North Central Texas College (2009-2010).

In Denton, MacIntyre has served as choreographer for Cirque du Horror, where Green Space dancers have performed annually since 2009. Green Space shows new work in the Collage Festival of Dance every spring at the Campus Theatre.

MacIntyre is co-founder of Triad Dance Ensemble, which received funding through the New York State Council on the Arts Re-grant Program 1991-2010. She choreographed musicals at Yale University, Hofstra University, the Catskill Actors Theatre and off-Broadway at the Nat Horne Theatre for the Manhattan Class Company (with producer, Robert LaPone). She has performed at numerous theatres, including the Kennedy Center, with the Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, and can be seen dancing in Joe Brooks feature film Heading for Broadway, and in the BBC’s Merce Cunningham: A Documentary. Her one-woman show, Crazy Good Luck was accepted into and performed in the New York International Fringe Festival.

MacIntyre served as a program auditor for the New York State Council for the Arts, reviewing cultural events produced in and around the Delaware Valley and Hudson Valley tri-state area.