Daniel Karasik, M.F.A.
Director, MFA Interdisciplinary Arts
Teaching Artist, Ballet
Contact Information
- Office: 716 A Lawrence Hall
- Phone: 412-392-3931
- Email: dkarasik@pointpark.edu
Education
- M.F.A., Interdisciplinary Arts, Wilson College
- B.F.A., Dance, Point Park University
Undergraduate Courses Taught
- Classical Ballet
- Dance Composition I, II, III
- Entrepreneurship for the Arts
- Dance Aesthetics & Criticism
- Pas de Deux
Graduate Courses Taught
- Choreography & Composition (M.Ed.)
- Interdisciplinary Process (M.F.A.)
Background
Daniel Karasik is a multidisciplinary artist. As a filmmaker, he has been awarded laurels internationally for Best Dance Short, Best Director and Best Original Score.
Karasik has created more than 90 choreographies for stage which have been reviewed as “grace and beauty personified,” having “intellectual glamour,” and being “a wonderfully effective series of dance essays.”
Karasik has provided artistic direction for the Morgantown Ballet Company and Dayton Arts Project. He has danced professionally in Pittsburgh, with The Georgia Ballet and The Dayton Ballet.
He is celebrating his 15th year at Point Park University and continues to teach and choreograph throughout the United States, at companies, schools and festivals.
Selected Artistic Works - Choreography
- Ophelia, dance film
- Multitudes, Point Park University
- Fixed Action, Dayton Ballet
Teaching Credits
- American College Dance Association
- The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts)
- Dayton Ballet
- Bodytraffice
- ODC/Dance
- Governor's School for the Arts, Nashville
- International Summer Dance
- National High School Dance Festival, Point Park University
- University of Kansas City Missouri
- Skidmore College
- West Virginia University
- Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera
- Reed Dance
- Vashon Center for the Arts