Karin AVERTY, Première Danseuse of the Paris Opera Ballet, has initiated Ballet dancing in a Parisian school of reputation: the Paul and Yvonne Goubé Center. One year later, She enters the Paris Opera Ballet School where She kept graduating continuously before being committed in 1979 at the Paris Opera Ballet.

International recognition is not made wait: in 1980, She gains the prestigious Gold Medal as well as the Great Price at the selective International Varna Contest, Bulgaria. In 1983, Paris opera devotes her Première Danseuse.
The A.R.O.P -Association for the Radiation of the Paris Opera- awards her the Public Great Price in 1984, and She is chosen by Rudolf NOUREEV in 1985 for his Noureev and Friends Tours.

San Francisco Ballet, USA, requests her as Principal Dancer in 1987: Miss Averty flies away one season as Special Guest.

Beyond the dazzling virtuosity of her dance, Karin Averty deploys an innate direction of the theatricalness which is worth to her the interest of Personalities of the Theatre world. In 1990, Jean Claude BRIALY calls upon her talents of actress for the role of Fanny ESSLER in L’Aiglon, staged by Jean-Luc TARDIEU. In 1998, She is invited to the Castle of Ainay Le Vieil Festival to interpret extracts of Medea of Jean ANOUILH. In 2004, Chloé GERBER CAHUSAC chooses her for her Short Film Chair et Tendre. In 2005, the International Short Film Festival in Ciotat, France, invites Karin Averty to be President of the Jury. Beside. She occurs many times for Television.

Meanwhile, the Artist continues her career with the Paris Opera in varied Titel roles: Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Bayadère, Coppelia, La Fille Mal Gardée, Corsair, Duo Concertant, Agon, Concerto Barocco, Four Temperaments, Jewels, Petrouschka, Etudes, Soir de Fête, Suite en Blanc, Mirages, as well as Noces, Auréole, Lamentation, Webern Opus 5, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, to quote only some of them. She is invited abroad by Companies of international fame: by San Francisco Ballet in San Francisco in 1989 and at the time of its Parisian Tour at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées the same year, the Opera of Stockholm in 1997 and '98, Kyoto Academy Ballet in 2001, the Official Meetings of the Varna Generations 1998 and 2004, the Kremlin Theatre in 2002...

Touring with Paris Opera and San Francisco Ballet, She travels in all Europe, in Asia, in North and South America, in Russia, in Japan: in 2004, French Government distinguishes her Chevalier of the National Order of Merit.

In 2005, the Paris Opera House devotes her career in one Evening of Good-byes where She interprets the role of Juliet in Noureev’s Romeo and Juliet.

Within the repertory of Karin Averty: Marius PETIPA, Rudolf NOUREEV, George BALANCHINE, Jerome ROBBINS, Harald LANDER, Sir Frederick ASHTON, Michel FOKINE, Waslav NIJINSKY, Bronislava NIJINSKA, Léo STAATS, Paul TAYLOR, Maurice BEJART, George SKIBINE, Joseph LAZZINI, Peter van DYK, Martha GRAHAM, Serge LIFAR, Hans van MANEN, Twyla THARP, Patrice BART, Nile CHRISTE, Gigi CACIULEANU, Odile DUBOC, Claude BRUMACHON, Helgi TOMASSON, Kenneth Mac MILLAN, Pierre LACOTTE, John NEUMEIER, William FORSYTHE, Albert AVELINE, Alwin NIKOLAÏS, James KULDEKA, Oscar ARAIZ, Richard TANNER, Anthony TUDOR, Agnès de MILE.