Karen Kain, CC was born in March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario and began training to turn into the ballerina at the National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada in 1962, graduating in 1969.

Fallowing graduation she joined a National Ballet of Canada, where she became Principal Dancer in 1971, dancing central roles inside a wide array of ballets, yet becoming the virtually all easily-known dancer in Canada.

Around 1973 she won silver in the women's competition and an additional silver for Better pas de Deux (with Frank Augustyn) at the 2nd International Ballet Competition.

around the late 1970s she stopped saltation for the cycle, however in 1980 resumed dancing with a National Ballet of Canada, where she stayed for Xv years, retiring from either dance within 1997 (one source says 1994).

Around 1976 she became an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1991 became a Companion of the Order of Canada and she has honorary degrees from a University of Toronto, York University, McMaster University, Trent University, and a University of British Columbia. Inside Could of 1998, the French Government known as her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

She is the president of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre and in 1992 she received the Performing Arts Award. Around 1996 she received the Cartier Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1st American to run soh & within 1997 she received the National Arts Centre Award.

She has worked as a guest creative person by using Roland Petit's Le Ballet National diamond state Marseilles, a Bolshoi Ballet, the London Festival Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, and Eliot Feld Ballet.

Around 1998, Ms. Kain returned to the National Ballet of Canada as part of the senior management team. In June 23, 2005, the company announced that she would succeed James Kudelka when artistic director[http://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=to-kain20050623]. Kain's appointment took consequence in July 1.

Inside 2004 she was appointed chair of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Her autobiography is Movement Never Lies (McClelland and Stewart, 1996).