BFA Dance Alumna Carrie Cox spent many years as a stage manager and lighting designer perfecting the art of stuffing magic rabbits into top hats and strategically cajoling artists on and off stages. Over the years, she has supported shows for Lynn Dally’s Jazz Tap Ensemble, BalletMet Columbus, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company, Robert Post Comedy Theatre, Momix, David Dorfman Dance, Roxane Butterfly, Karl Rogers’ Red Dirt Dance, RythMEK, Yin Mei and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Massachusetts. Most recently, Cox supported international choreographer Vincent Mantsoe at New York City Center’s 2017 Fall for Dance Festival. For over a decade, Cox provided production management for the Bates Dance Festival (BDF) in Lewiston, Maine. She is a proud company member of the Columbus-based Available Light Theatre. Carrie taught production and managed the Barnett Theatre for Ohio State Dance for 13 years.
In July 2019, Cox announced that she accepted the opportunity to join the staff of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Dance and Choreography beginning autumn 2019. “Though my job at VCU will be similar to the job I leave at OSU, know that all I bring to VCU will be well-founded on the artistic inquiries that I discovered with you or at your side, either as a student, an instructor or colleague”, says Cox. “Though it is hard for me to wrap my brain around this major change, it affords me the reward of being in the proximity of family. I am determined to be my niece and nephew’s favorite aunt. Thank you all for the delights and surprises of art-making over these many years. Confetti and high-bounce balls are a chore to clean up, after all, but they are transformative when they fall at just the right moment…That’s certainly a great stage metaphor for life. Thank you for letting me be a part of yours.”
Please join us in giving Carrie Cox a tremendous shout out for her many years of service to Ohio State Dance and in wishing her many more years of success with dance production management and lighting at VCU.
