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.

Music: Jason Finkelman
Recorded by Jason Finkelman with drumming by Gordon Kay
Text created with the dancers
Costume designer: Jennie Phyllis Gratton
Lighting: Michael Williams
Dancers: Buffy Barfoot; Kate Corby; Angela Fledderman Miller; Kate McIlvain; Lauren Moore; Alitra Cartman (understudy)