Karen Warr

Karen Royce Warr has been passionate about dance since she was a little girl growing up in her small hometown of Murfreesboro, NC. When she attended the NC Governor’s School as a high school student, she fell in love with modern dance. She attended Randolph College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a major in Biology and a minor in Dance. Karen obtained her Master of Science in Coastal Ecology from UNC-Wilmington and worked as a Coastal Ecologist and Wetlands Biologist in NC and Florida. She is a member of the Rainbow Dance Company and Black Box Dance Company.

She loves to connect with her interests of nature and ecology when she teaches dance. “Dance is an amazing tool for teaching anything. Kids love to learn by relating topics to their bodies and their own movement.” Karen is a 200 hour certifed yoga instructor and the owner of a small local business - Oak City Little Gardens. She has taught dance at Arts Together for 18 years and has been the Preschool dance teacher for 16 years. Karen, the mother of two, also loves traveling with her family, gardening, birdwatching, and taking walks with her husband, Richard.