CoCo Loupe (cocoloupedance)
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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 in early 2008.

She is now living in Columbus, OH where she works as a webdesigner, is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, and makes dances as often as she can. As a matter of fact, she is making two solos for Senior Undergraduate Students at OSU and and has just premiered two new works for Drums Downtown, a collaborative concert between OSU's Department of Dance and Percussion Ensemble.

My Favorite Dance Companies Are:

Deja Donne, William Forsythe, Ron Brown | Evidence, Jerome Bel, Merce Cunningham Dance, Tanztheater Pina Bausch, Miguel Gutierrez, Deborah Hay Dance Company, BeBe Miller Dance Company, Stephen Petronio, Rennie Harris | Puremovement, Emio Greco, Ballet Preljocaj etc, etc, etc

My Occupation:

Dance Maker, Dance Educator/Advocate, Webdesigner

The last dance performance I loved was:

Deborah Hay's Premeire of "Mountain" at TBA in Portland, OR

Nature Theatre of Oklahoma's performance of Ballet Brut : poetics

My other interests include:

dancing, crocheting, reading, painting, yoga, playing the harmonica, weight-lifting, blogging, designing t-shirts

I am a dance enthusiast because:

it's all I've ever known ..........

If I could have dinner with any choreographer / dancer, it would be:
Because:

nijinsky, fanny cerrito, katherine dunham, william forsythe, gene kelly, jerome bel, merce cunningham, elizabeth streb, maguy marin

I am inspired by:

people who make good things & make things good

My Website:

http://www.cocoloupedance.com