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Lippo dances into spotlight

Posted in Dance, tagged , , , , on September 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Skyy Lippo dances into the post-graduate world. (Photos courtesy Joe Lippo)

The stages keep getting bigger.

Coupeville High School grad Skyy Lippo continues to pursue a life of dance, and her latest performance will take her to the City Stage Theatre in Missouri.

She’ll be a guest artist as Kansas City Contemporary Dance puts on its fall show, Behind Closed Doors.

The show, which runs November 4-5, explores “personal choices, loneliness, friendship, compulsions, manipulation, internal struggles, privacy, and sense of belonging.”

Going with the flow.

Lippo recently graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is now able to take advantage of a more-open schedule to perform with the troupe.

“I had auditioned with them for their dance season,” Lippo said.

“Unfortunately, I couldn’t take the trainee position they offered, because it turned out their season started while I was still in school, and I wanted to get my degree.”

Artistry in motion.

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Twice the talent, twice the opportunities

Posted in Baseball, Dance, tagged , , , , , on May 31, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville twins Skyy and Joey Lippo are off to new adventures. She’s got a dance scholarship, he’s rejoining high school teammates on the college baseball diamond. (Teresa Besaw photo)

They’ve spent much of their life together, but now the diamond and the stage will separate them for a bit.

Twins Skyy and Joey Lippo, who graduated from Coupeville High School in 2018, have recently pledged themselves to different colleges.

Skyy is headed off to the Midwest, where she will attend The University of Missouri-Kansas City on a dance scholarship, while her brother has signed to play baseball at Green River College in Auburn.

That move reunites Joey with former CHS teammates CJ and Hunter Smith, who will be sophomores on next year’s Gator diamond squad.

Lippo, who bounced between the infield and outfield in his Coupeville days (with some stints at catcher and pitcher as well) figures to be a full-time outfielder at Green River.

He’s studying criminal justice.

“I hope to play center field, but anywhere in the outfield would be great,” Joey Lippo said. “I plan to transfer to UMKC after two years to join Skyy and finish my degree and maybe play tennis there, since they don’t have a baseball team.”

During his time at CHS, Joey was an All-League baseball player and teamed up with William Nelson to form the #1 doubles duo for the Wolf netters.

His sister, who performed with the Whidbey Island Dance Theatre, will study modern dance and ballet at UMKC, with a minor in business.

Skyy, who was a regular in productions of The Nutcracker, will also perform outside the school as she pursues her dance dream.

“If I get the opportunity to dance professional, I will,” she said. “If not, I will teach at a dance studio and hope to manage a studio of my own.”

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