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Attack Theatre is a non-profit contemporary dance company based in Pittsburgh, PA. The company was founded in 1994 by Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza and has produced over 150 dance-based productions in theatrical and site specific settings. While maintaining a loyal Pittsburgh audience, their work has toured the United States, Europe, and Asia. Attack Theatre’s arts education residencies reach thousands of participants each year. Whether in theaters, street-corners, or in the classroom, Attack Theatre’s programs create a personalized connection between artist, audience, and environment.

= About the Company =

Attack Theatre has been making critically acclaimed dance for more than a decade, uniting artists and audiences through the process and production of personal, accessible and collaborative dance-based performance. Attack Theatre combines modern dance, original live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms to present work to diverse audiences in traditional and non-traditional spaces in Pittsburgh, throughout the United States, and around the world.

Founded in 1994 by Artistic Directors Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza, Attack Theatre has choreographed and performed in almost every major theater in Pittsburgh and collaborated with major regional theaters (Quantum Theatre), NYC Broadway productions (“Squonk”), museums (Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Frick Art Museum, Mattress Factory), symphonies (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Asheville Symphony), operas (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Spoleto USA) and with international dance companies (Japan’s Nibroll Collective and Belgium’s Compagnie Matteo Moles), presenting nearly 100 original works in theatrical and site-specific settings. While maintaining a loyal audience in their home base of Pittsburgh, they have toured regionally in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, South Carolina, D.C., Texas, Washington and New York; and internationally in France, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Indonesia and Japan.

Attack Theatre conducts residencies in contemporary dance, creative movement and aesthetic education in universities, primary and secondary schools, arts festivals and community centers for thousands of students and community members each year. The company’s extensive arts education residencies are enhanced through their active participation with the PA Council on the Arts-Arts in Education Roster (AIE), Gateway to the Arts, the Arts Education Collaborative, and as Dance Company in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music.