“OVER/ and Over” is a collaborative dance/performance project that will reunite alumni and teachers of Phillips Academy, Andover who have all deepened their connection to dance and performance since working together at the school. The performers and choreographers of UDOPA (united dancers of phillips andover) bring a wide range of experiences to this project, creating a rich texture of dance making and performing. Included are conservatory students, university students, professional choreographers, dancers just beginning their professional careers, and young professionals working in the fields of computers and education. This event promises to be a dynamic experience, bridging generations, and reuniting old friends.

Choreographers for “OVER/ and Over” include April Betty, Anne Zuerner, Liz Vacco, Midge Brecher and Judith Wombwell. April Betty, recent graduate from Bard College with a BA in dance who has been working with children in addition to performing in the Boston area, will create a new group piece. Anne Zuerner who after graduating from Barnard returned to PA to teach dance and perform in the Boston area with Anna Myer and Dancers will perform two self-choreographed solos, one in high heels, the other in wrestling shoes. Zuerner will also be presenting a new trio in which dancers behave like robots. Liz Vacco is creating a new work featuring “Immediate Medium” a company whose paths converged in 1996 while attending Yale University as artists experimenting in different medium including performance art, photography, film, architecture, theatre, dance, sculpture, video and writing. Retired PA faculty member Midge Brecher will present a duet she originally created for secondary students that they will now perform as experienced dancers, and Judith Wombwell, a choreographer for the last 20 years and currently on the faculty at Philips Academy, will create three new works.

Performers include Natalie Wombwell, currently in the dance conservatory at Purchase College, Brienne Leon who performs with the Yale dancers, Natalie Ho who continues to study dance at Brown University, Comfort Halsey and Emily Reynolds of Andover, Eleanor Kusner, who studied dance at Barnard College and performs with Anna Myer and Dancers, Miles Lasater of New Haven, Ellen Yang, along with Betty, Wombwell and Vacco and performers of “Immediate Medium.” Lights will be designed by PA alum Colin MacNaughton

There will be two performance of “OVER/ and Over”, August 20 & 21st, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm at Green Street Studio, 185 Green Street (Central Square), Cambridge, Ma.
Suggested donations are $10 per ticket and reservations are recommended. You may reserve a seat by calling (978)749-4682.

CONTACT PERSON:
JUDITH WOMBWELL
(978)475-4269
jwombwell@jwombwell.com