Irvin, Karen, 1910?-1999.
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Irvin, Karen, 1910?-1999.
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Irvin, Karen, 1910?-1999.
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Karen Irvin headed the dance department at Cornish School of the Allied Arts for 27 years and founded the Cornish Ballet. She was born in Hastings, Penn., ca. 1910 and moved to Seattle at age eight. Irvin joined the Cornish faculty in 1945 and became the head of the dance department in 1952. She also gave dance lessons in Mt. Vernon and Sedro-Wooley, Washington, in the 1940s. Karen Irvin died March 2, 1999, at the age of 89.
Dance instructor and department head at Cornish School of the Allied Arts in Seattle, Wash.
Karen Irvin joined the dance department faculty at Seattle's Cornish School of the Allied Arts in 1945 and served as head of the department from 1952 to 1979. She also founded the Cornish Ballet.
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