LOVELL — She’s a lizard. An aging gunslinger yearning for his youth. A whole baseball team. An exasperated baby sitter. A tiger. She’s Karen Montanaro, performing her unique blend of mime and dance in her internationally famous “Tanzspiel.” And she’ll take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Lovell’s Brick Church for the Performing Arts.

“Tanzspiel” (German for dance-play) is a one-woman performance of athleticism, artistry and imagination. “I can be anything I want to be,” said Montanaro. Soundlessly, her body becomes a fluid, regal tiger, flicking its tail (her foot) and surveying its domain. In the next act, she may perform the essence of baseball – pitcher, batter, catcher, avid fan, each with his own familiar quirks and chews and waggles – culminating in the pitcher’s impossible corkscrew wind-up. Or she may burst into pure, magical ballet.

Montanaro is a solo performer, an award-winning choreographer and the innovator of “mimedance,” the fusion of two classical art forms. She studied ballet at Cantarella School of Dance, Ram Island Dance Center and on scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet School. She danced professionally with the Ohio Ballet and Darmstadt Opera Ballet in Germany. Upon moving back to the Unites States, she also danced principal roles with the Portland Ballet Company.

For more than a decade, Karen toured and taught internationally with mime master Tony Montanaro, her late husband. She currently tours the world with “Tanzspiel.”

A teaching artist, Montanaro offers residencies in movement, mime and dance in public and private schools throughout the United States. In 2008, the Maine Arts Commission awarded her an Individual Fellowship Grant.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and younger; they will be available at the door. For more information, call 925-2792 or visit www.lovellbrickchurch.org.