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About us
| A ballet dancer since her elementary days, Ruby Karen has worked up the ladder harder than most kids in her dance class. Coming from a family of nine (9) siblings, the luxury of going to ballet class was not afforded to her, rather, she saved up her school allowance to pay for her tuition, and graciously accepted hand-me-down dance attires and pointe (toe) shoes. After advancing enough to be leveled with the apprentices of dance companies, she found herself taking classes with world famous British dancer and teacher, William Morgan, who provided her with the strong fundamental training she now carries till today. It was through Morgan and choreographer, Eric V. Cruz, the latter who discovered her while auditioning for the project, Interior Castle, that greatly contributed to Ruby’s training, which also commenced her professional career as a performing artist. |  | As she moved to Los Angeles, she knew she had to start all over. The Hollywood industry was quite different from Tokyo protocol. She focused her attention as a dancer and a choreographer, creating various pieces for individuals and dance companies. As she hungered for new concepts, she continued to aggressively train and meet new challenges including her newly found interests, acro-gymnastics and salsa. She realized that in order to fulfill her passion, she had to break away from limitations and direct her energies as a solo/ independent performer, setting no boundaries to the passion of learning and strengthening her skills in ballet, modern, acro-gymnastics, salsa and Aerial Arts, e.g. Silk/Tissu, Lyra/Hoop and Hammock. In keeping with the commercial aspect Hollywood has to offer, her most recent appearance was with the reality show by Fox TV called: So You Think You Can Dance, by the same producers of American Idol (Dick Clark Productions and 19 TV Ltd. with executive producers, Simon Fuller, Nigel Lythgoe and Allen Shapiro). Ruby Karen was the assistant choreographer who not only taught and demonstrated the demanding salsa routine, but also shared with the contestants, her secrets in the execution of the tricks.
Ruby Karen dedicates this website to the many artists who crave nothing more but to be embodied in the form they passionately adore. |
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The Ruby Karen Project is a mobile organization rendering performance and instructions to a variety of society customizing their group and individual needs. The founder and director, Ruby Karen is a veteran in the performing arts industry with 35 years experience in the field of dance, circus aerials, sports, and fitness, having taught and performed continuously in at least 20 countries and 50 cities with repeated invitations. She garnered 3 World Titles, namely, the Ballet Pas de Deux and Acro-Gymnastics partnering from the highly established World Championship of Performing Arts, and The Mayan World Salsa Championship – Professional Division. |
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Orange County Aerial Arts |
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Ruby Karen Project formed the Orange County Aerial Arts, a professional company catered to the Orange County community. Their mission is to promote, market and educate what aerial arts encompasses by providing demonstrations, showcases and performances both for public and private events. It shall also aim to reach out as the official performing aerial arts group in Orange County. The OCAA shall also serve to inspire and stimulate the Aerial Dance Fitness© and the aerial arts students under its school and shall provide a direction to a professional career, whether be dance, aerial arts or fitness. OCAA School is under the direct supervision of the Ruby Karen Project. |
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RUBY KARENINTERNATIONAL DANCER, AERIALIST & CHOREOGRAPHER Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Ruby studied ballet continuously since she was 8 yrs old (Manila, Tokyo, New York, Zurich & Los Angeles) in addition to modern, jazz, circus aerials and gymnastics. She has and currently travels around the world, performing and teaching dance. She is a world title holder in three categories namely salsa, ballet and acro-gymnastics and has won several awards in choreography and sports both on the national international and regional level. |
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DANCE AWARDS:- 1st –Mayan World Salsa Championship 2005
- 1st (Gold medalist) in Ballet - World Championship of Performing Arts 2003
- 1st (Gold medalist) - Acro-gymnastics - World Championship of Performing Arts 2003
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At age 8, Ruby Karen began her ballet training at her neighborhood school under the tutelage of Yolly Ureta. She then continued at the American School of Ballet (Edgar Valdez), Effie Nanas School of Ballet, the Cultural Center of the Philippines School of Dance and William Morgan. Then, at age 14, she became a member of Dance Concert Company’s corps de ballet headed by Vela Damian and Eric V. Cruz, after which she was promoted to principal dancer with Dance Concert Company, dancing to several roles from classic ballets to original company repertoires. |
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The Saga continues... |
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An advocate of good health and core training, Ruby Karen explored the competitive arena of bodybuilding and powerlifting as a medium of understanding her body. She also took gymnastics and was a varsity swimmer in college. These athletic sports coupled with formal education in biomechanical studies assisted her in strength, endurance and technique training as well as aided in her designing and development of class/ workshop programs. |
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Ruby Karen is measured as a total package in the field of performing arts. Not only does she physically delivers the art form, she also passionately creates movement whether for herself or for individuals and organizations. She is driven by her wide vocabulary fusing a variety of choreography influences from her background (ballet, contemporary dance, modern, jazz and athletic routines) producing new forms in the performing arts language. Even with the given resources provided to her, she believes that there are no boundaries when it comes to crafting movements. |
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Like other Filipinos, Ruby Karen was exposed to music since she was a little girl, performing with her siblings under the group, Tender Trap. She continuously got involved in several groups and consistently performed in concerts, events, and private functions as well as did studio recordings. |
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Testimonials
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Daisy Kim, Co-Producer
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"She has all the characteristics of a successful performer – very solid and strong technique, compelling and beautiful stage presence, and the emotional and physical stamina to withstand any obstacles thrown her way." full testimonial
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