Patricia Greenwood-Karagozian

American-born Patricia Greenwood Karagozian began her career with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. With Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera, she danced and acted in no fewer than eighteen musicals, including West Side Story (role of Anybodys), Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Applause… Passionate about teaching, she has held the Certificat d’Aptitude in jazz dance since 1994. She is involved in training for the Diplôme d’État de professeur de danse in a number of private and public centres, as well as for the Certificat d’Aptitude at the Centre National de la Danse and the CNSMD in Lyon. 

In 2003, she obtained a Licence Professionnelle in Analyse Fonctionnelle du Corps dans le Mouvement Dansé (Professional Degree in Functional Analysis of the Body in Danced Movement) in order to go further in the sensations and analyses of the body. She is also co-author of the teaching guide, Enseigner la Danse Jazz, published by the Centre National de la Danse in 2007. And as part of her ongoing commitment to dance, since 2006 she has been president of the Collectif pour la Danse Jazz: CodaJazz. 

Paying particular attention to improvisation and the music-dance relationship, she has improvised in concert at various jazz music festivals (with Philippe la Carrière, Benoît Sourisse, Olivier Temine, etc.). Until 2010, she danced for the FaCéCie company (created by Fabienne Voin-Zanati). This experience enabled her to take part in collective improvisation and composition research with a jazz quartet. Performer, teacher, trainer and choreographer, Patricia Greenwood Karagozian created a jazz solo, Cygne, for Pedro Pauwels in 2000 as part of Anne-Marie Reynaud’s project. She has also been asked to work on projects promoted by the Rectorat de Paris in partnership with the Théâtre du Châtelet. 

Artistic director of Compagnie PGK, her first creation, Unfinished Fragments, was programmed at the Centre National de la Danse in March 2012. Since then, the piece has been performed to a wide audience throughout France.