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Glass Panorama - An MFA Concert by CoCo Loupe and Kathryn Padberg Press Release

The Ohio State University Department of Dance presents Glass Panorama, a graduate dance concert on January 19-21, 2006 at 8pm in Sullivant Hall Theatre. Kathryn Padberg, an MFA candidate in Dance Performance and CoCo Loupe, MFA candidate in Dance Choreography, present three works as partial fulfillment for their Master's degree. Padberg and Loupe challenge the conventional proximity of dancer and spectator by placing the audience on the stage with the performers. This manipulation of the traditional theatre space brings a new sense of intimacy to the dance performance experience.

Kathryn Padberg redefines the dancer's versatility and vulnerability as she performs two extremely different solos, Don't Holler and restaged excerpts from Merce Cunningham's Changing Steps. Changing Steps, first performed in 1973 by members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, challenges the range of physical virtuosity and technical proficiency. Special permission was granted
by the Cunningham Foundation to perform these historic solos, set against the calm musical landscape of composer John Cage. Don't Holler, an original dance theatre work choreographed by Padberg, in collaboration with OSU dance professor John Giffin, explores character and emotional development in a modern dance work. The piece, set to music by early 20th Century Jug Band, Ruckus Juice and Chitlin's, follows the story of a young woman discovering the faked happiness painted on humanity as well as within
her as she realizes a chapter in her life is at its close.

CoCo Loupe presents In the Clear, a work for four dancers that is a product of investigating a new choreographic process model based on "Practice Through Repetition." Set to the driving ambient tunes of Amon Tobin, it is a translation of kinesthetic sensations experienced through the repetition of movement.

In the Clear is an interior view of human interaction that exposes small interpersonal anomalies that lead to expansive and dramatic consequences. The dancers, Emily Bass, Amy Campbell, Jeff Fouch and Jenny Howard, contributed most of the movement material to the piece and were integral creative voices throughout the process of making this dance. Their personalities and artistry are woven into a fine tapestry of action/reaction and cause/affect. This work is a constantly shifting event in which athleticism and subtlety combine to unfurl an evocative visual landscape.

Due to the presenters' intention of an intimate performance space, it is recommended that audience members arrive early as seating is limited.