TUPACO Dance: A Dance Company
Director/ Choreographer Jessica Tupa
TUPACO DANCE has so much to offer, contact us today to:
- STILT DANCING or MIME
Hire a stilt dancer or mime for your celebration or fundraising event.
- DANCE INSTRUCTION
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- CHOREOGRAPHY
- Theatrical Performances
- Wedding Dances
- School Plays
- Your special event
- Contact us at tupacodance@gmail.com to inquire about how TUPACO Dance can make your event special.
- Mission Statement
TUPACO Dance is dedicated to providing its community with a wide range of high quality dance opportunities, through performances and outreach, while actively supporting the philosophy that movement arts and their beneficial and healing attributes should be available to everyone. We create work that is engaging and challenging while still accessible, and view dance as both an Art and an integral form of human expression.
- History
TUPACO Dance was created in the fall of 2007 when choreographer Jessica Tupa put an official name to the body of work she had been building or several years. Themes from TUPACO Dance mix post modern dance and traditional dance aesthetics. The dance company has a conceptual affiliation with Tupa’s wellness class, TUPACO, which derives from movement-based disciplines for strength, health and wellness (ie, Yoga, core work, movement fundamentals, breathing.) with meditation and visualization. While TUPACO balances mind, body and spirit for discovering the whole self. TUPACO Dance inspires through the art of dance.
- ABOUT Director/Choreographer Jessica Tupa
Jessica Tupa received her B.F.A. cum laude, in Dance (OSU, 2001) after working as a principle dancer and assistant to the choreographer, with Dance Theatre Northwest for several years. Since graduating from OSU she has been pro-active part of the dance community of Columbus Ohio, dancing, teaching and making dances, which often derive from anthropological an internal perspectives. Jessica has danced with several local choreographers and served on the board of Columbus Movement Movement as secretary and vice-chair. She is in her sixth teaching season at Dublin Dance Center and Gymnastics and her third year as an adjunct faculty at Capital University. Jessica’s earliest training started in classical Ballet. As a youth she studied with Jan Collum and then William Christiansen. Later, Character Dance, Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop, stilting and many traditional and ethnic dances were added to her diverse movement background. She is an award winning mime. In the fall of 2007 Jessica started her dance company TUPACO Dance, a conceptual affiliate to her wellness class TUPACO, a class for all body-types and age groups, based in movement, body therapies and visualization. TUPACO Dance presented their first full-length dance concert @ CDT’s Fischer Theatre, in Oct. of 2008 (with support from DDC&G and the GCAC). (See the Alive! paper October and December 2008). Jessica believes that personal expression and educated self-care create opportunities for health in the mind, body and spirit for people of all ages and physical ability. She remains committed to bringing dance, as an activity and an Art form , to participants and audiences wherever possible
