Karl Rogers is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He defected to the Midwest, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Educational Studies and Theatre from Knox College, and then trained at the Dance Center–Columbia College in Chicago, simultaneously serving as its Academic Program Coordinator. He completed an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University in 2003, where in addition to teaching technique, improvisation, and dance/theatre history, he was the first artist to receive the University’s top award, a Presidential Fellowship. Karl now splits his time between Carlisle, PA (where he is the postgraduate fellow in Dance at Dickinson College) and Brooklyn (where he continues to make his own work and dance— David Dorfman Dance, Nugent+Matteson Dance and many others.) He also is the Co-director of the Bates Dance Festival's Young Dancer's Workshop.