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bio: the short version:

 

CoCo Loupe holds a BFA & MFA in Dance/Choreography. In the past 20 years she has been an ADF freak-a-zoid, and indie dance group dreamer, pick-up performer and a university educator. Her work has been performed all over the place but not everywhere. She lives in Columbus, OH and likes it. She works on websites everyday and makes dances when she can. She also blogs "almost daily" at From One Foot To The Other.

 

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bio: the really long version:

 

CoCo Loupe is a native of Baton Rouge, LA and holds a BFA in Dance from The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. In 1988, 1989, and 1992 she attended American Dance Festival where she studied with Betty Jones, Jim Sutton, Natalie Gilbert, Glenna Batson, Jeff Slayton, Simone Forti, Ismael Houston-Jones, Chuck Davis, Mark Dendy, Dianne McIntyre, Donald McKayle and Ron Brown.

 

In Dallas, she danced with Dancers Unlimited Repertory Company and co-founded GroundLevel Dance Company. She performed and presented her works at The Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, Sunset High School, University of Texas at Dallas and University of North Texas as well as in private and public performance venues around the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex.

 

From Dallas, CoCo moved to New York, NY where she performed with Skip Costa/CORE Movement Research and presented collaborative works with Amiti Perry. She has taught dance at Brookhaven Community College in Dallas, TX, The Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.

 

In 2006 CoCo received the MFA degree in Choreography from The Ohio State University. While at OSU she served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant where she taught all levels of modern, jazz and ballet in the Elective Dance Program and ballet, modern, technology, and composition classes in the Major Program.

 

In 2005, her work was performed in the ACDFA Gala Concert at Bowling Green State University. In 2006, her work was chosen by ACDFA adjudicators to be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as part of the National College Dance Festival.

 

From 2006-07 CoCo served as Assistant Professor of Dance at The University of Oregon in The School of Music and Dance. While in Oregon, she presented It Could Happen....a contemporary dance and music performance at Conduit Studios in Portland, OR with musical collaborators Christian Cherry and Brian McWhorter and dancers Sarah Ebert and Christine Rice.

 

In August of 2007, CoCo traveled to Findhorn, Scotland and participated in Deborah Hay's Solo Performance Commissioning Project. There she learned Hay's Solo The Runner and will be practicing her own unique adaptation of it to be performed on future occasions.

 

In 2007 & 2008, she taught modern dance technique and repertory at The Ohio State University, created new works for OSU students, and performed at Judson Church (NYC) in Colleen Leonardi's work, flatland.

 

In 2009, she danced in bacKspace's final Columbus, OH show, RAVE! , performed the Deborah Hay solo adaptation, The Runner and separately, In the Ropes with the Kristina Isabelle Dance Company at AGORA 6, created click here for slideshow or 6-8 character limit for Anna Sullivan's Anthro(pop)ology II concert, and made 2 girls dance for nearly 10 minutes for cm2's Columbus Dances X show.

 

In 2010, CoCo created GAB/MAG for Ten Tiny Dances and she continues to participate as a member of the Dance Artists in Columbus (DAC), a group of independent dance-artists and organizations who are working together to foster the growth and development of the Columbus, Ohio dance community through collaboration, advocacy and information sharing. She is currently developing a dance community website for DAC. Check it out!

 

CoCo works full-time as a webdesigner and teaches, makes dances and blogs about it as often as she can.