Karen Young

costume design, If We Were a Love Song, The Gettin’

Karen Young (costume design, If We Were a Love Song, The Gettin’) is a New York-based costume designer who has created clothes for many of Kyle Abraham and A.I.M’s works. For the company, she designed the costumes for An Untitled Love, Cassette Vol. 1, The Gettin’, Drive, and INDY. Recent projects with Kyle Abraham include his ballets When We Fell for New York City Ballet, Mercurial Son for American Ballet Theatre, Are You in Your Feelings? for Alvin Ailey American Dancer Theater, and The Weathering for the Royal Ballet. Her costume design work is also in the repertoires of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Acosta Danza Cuba, Miami City Ballet, and Ballet Basel, as well as in works by choreographers Alejandro Cerrudo, Brian Brooks, Lucinda Childs, Richard Move, Sonya Tayeh, and Pontus Lidberg. Collaborations with contemporary visual artists include costume design for the video works of Eve Sussman, Matthew Barney, Michelle Handelman and David Michalek. karenyoungcostume.com.