IN THE ACADEMY

Beseeching On Your Own Behalf

February 2006

A work exploring secrets, how we manage them and what happens as we learn to deal with our own and those closest to us. Some secrets and the stories we hold are relentless and the work delves into how they might manifest physically. Some we’ve held and are challenged to overcome. This work asks what we see in each other and ourselves as we negotiate growth into womanhood from the child we have to leave behind.

Performed by Buffy Barfoot, Kate Corby, Angela Fledderman Miller, Kate McIlvain, Lauren Moore, and Alitra Cartman (understudy)

Music by Jason Finkelman

Recorded by Jason Finkelman with drumming by Gordon Kay

Text conceived by Cynthia Oliver in collaboration with the dancers

Costume Design byJennie Phyllis Gratton

Lighting by Michael Williams