Karen Kain Canada's Prima Ballerina KAREN KAIN was eight when she wrote, , When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina. After dancing Giselle, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, La Sylphide, and hundreds of other classical and contemporary ballets, Karen expressed the same enthusiasm 35 years later in her autobiography, ...