Welcome to Get Karenated® Dance & Fitness LLC
Karen Lynell Arceneaux
Fun Facts: Dedicated - 13 days away from 6 years of daily planks; My Zen - ChaCha Sunflower Seeds; Can't get Enough - Aspire Healthy Energy Drinks
From ULL Weight Lifting 101 to CPT+
Dedicated to fitness and enthused about creating new training programs and helping individuals reach their personal health and fitness goals, Karen L. Arceneaux is a NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Certified Personal Trainer, Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Performance Enhancement Specialist, and Weight Loss Specialist. She is the creator of FX460®, an AFAA (Athletics & Fitness Associations of America) certified Group Exercise Instructor, a certified TRX Suspension Trainer, and a licensed Zumba instructor.
Pre-pandemic, she was a Group Exercise Instructor at New York Sports Club (Long Island - Hicksville), where she taught Boot Camp, Total Body Conditioning, and Zumba to a diverse group of excited members. She also taught Horton technique and her own dance and fitness classes at other studios in Queens and Long Island. April 2020 shifted all in-studio classes to online classes. As the founder, owner, director, trainer, and instructor for Get Karenated® Dance and Fitness LLC, she currently teaches her own dance fitness class creation, FX460®, as well as Body Weight Blast, Total Body Toning, Body Weight Boot Camp, ABS + Core + GLUTES, and Zumba. She also trains clients online in dance and fitness.
Arceneaux was recently quoted in Ebony magazine, offering a pro-tip to switching up a fitness routine and in PopSugar, sharing an exercise that strengthens a weak upper body. She was also featured in More magazine in a campaign called “Strong Suits”, celebrating the strength of several women who use their bodies in professions such as dance, stunt work, horseback riding, and fitness. Other features include NBC-NY (How to- Plank Pike 101), CBS-NY (Horton technique demo for NYC Dance Week), Dance Teacher Magazine (Horton technique transitioning from high lateral to lateral T to low lateral), and Dr. Oz’s The Good Life (a fitness success story).
Arceneaux holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Never relenting in her mission to be an inspiration to others, Arceneaux is also a dance educator, a professional dancer, a choreographer, and the Founder/Artistic Director of Genesis Dance Company and Creators Life Movement. She loves her sunflower seeds and holds the greatest title of mother to her son, Khairen and daughter, Cryslan.
The Call to Dance... I answered it.
Karen Lynell Arceneaux, (Gonzales, Louisiana), the proud mother of a 21 and 24 year old (girl and boy respectively), received her B.F.A. in Choreographic Design from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL). Arceneaux has trained at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina, The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and The Ailey School. During her studies, she had the opportunity to work with such noted dance professionals as Odette Blum, Ethel Butler, Bettie Jones, Donald McKayle, Clay Taliaferro, Ana Marie Forsythe, Kelvin Rotardier, David Dorfman, Denise Jefferson, Milton Myers, Lynn Glauber, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Wendy Amos, Steve Rooks, Freddie Moore, Earl Mosley, Beth Goheen, and Matthew Rushing.
After graduating from The Ailey School, Arceneaux worked as the administrative assistant to the School Director and B.F.A. Program Co-Director. She later served as the school administrator from 1999-2004. She has choreographed for The Ailey School’s Student Performance Group, Student Showcase Group, The Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. Program in Dance, Ailey’s Professional Performing Arts School program and ULL. In addition, Arceneaux has also choreographed for the play “Faustus/Faustus”, directed by Matthew Maguire, working with dancers in the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. Program and actors in Fordham University’s Theatre Program. She has been a member of Footprints Dance Company and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance Series. She has also served as a guest teacher and artist-in- residence for Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts in Connecticut. She taught extensively in Eastern Long Island, working with elementary to high school students of the Bridgehampton School, East Hampton Town Senior/Youth Center, Amagansett School, the Children’s Museum of the East End and Guild Hall. Since 1999, she has choreographed for the annual Christmas concert at Saint Paul’s Church in New York, working with dancers in the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. Program in Dance.
For four years, Arceneaux served as an adjudicator for Long Island University’s (C.W. Post campus) annual dance conference and was a guest choreographer for its annual fall and spring showcases. Currently, she is the Founder and Artistic Director of Genesis Dance Company LLC, established in 2001. As the director of Genesis Dance Company, her work have been presented at the NuDanceNow Festival at The Riverside Theater; the International Dance Festival at The Duke at 42nd Street; The Ailey Citigroup Theater and the DiCapo Theater; “Afternoons” at LIU at Kumble Theater for Performing Arts; the MOJA Arts Festival at the Gaillard Auditorium in South Carolina; CT Meets NY Dance Fest at The Crystal Theater in Connecticut and Dance New Amsterdam in NY; and Community Works’ Celebration of Women’s Month at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts and Hostos Center for Arts and Culture. A former adjunct professor at Nassau Community College, Arceneaux holds a Master of Arts Degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix, and is a former instructor for The Ailey School, and The Ailey Extension program. She has also served as a teaching artist for Alvin Ailey’s Arts- in-Education Program and has taught at Connecticut Ballet and in various public schools for Opus Dance Theater. She has choreographed for the Horton Performance Workshop for the Kat Wildish Performance Showcase and for The Ailey Extension’s Student Performance Workshop, Voices and Visions, and Summer Experience presented in The Ailey Citigroup Theater, the latter presented in The Ailey Studios. Prior to March 2020, her work was also performed by her students in The Ailey School’s Junior Division Program for the yearly spring performances at Hostos Center for Arts and Culture.
Arceneaux continues to train and coach students online and prepare them for high school and college auditions. You can find her teaching Horton II Wednesdays 7:30pm and Horton I Fridays 7:30pm for beginner to advanced adult dancers. Both classes are online, eastern standard time.
