Karin Ordoñez Moreno was born in Vienna and currently lives in Graz where she works as a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She studied classical and modern dance at the Vienna Conservatory, the London Contemporary Dance School and with soloists of the Martha Graham Dance Company. She lived in London, Mexico and Ecuador and since the 80s has been working as a dance teacher and choreographer with children and people of all ages and in creative, contemporary dance projects, for instance the Konfrontationen series.