Attack Theatre performs in Switzerland, Japan, Monaco, Germany, France, Turkey and venues throughout the US.  Their site-specific works have been performed at the Pittsburgh East End Event, Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Avignon Festival, First Night Pittsburgh and Tacoma, The Mattress Factory, and the Frick Art Museum. 

Attack Theatre performed at the Avignon Festival in Southern France, creating “delicious moments of intimacy by these generous artists” (Le Dauphine Vaucluse-Matin) and featuring Virgin Domo recording artist and cellist Dave Eggar - "Superb solo work…One of the best players I've heard" – New York Times. They collaborated with the Japanese company, Nibroll, and performed in Tokyo, Nagoya and Kanazawa. 

Attack Theatre co-directors Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza have been recognized as "a masterful and dynamite duo...the Fred and Ginger of the 90's where Ginger does most of the lifting." 

Peter and Michele's received their Broadway (Helen Hayes Theater) debut as choreographers for the production of Squonk in New York City.  Attack Theatre choreographs for the Pittsburgh Opera, Quantum Theater and the Pittsburgh Symphony.  Michele and Peter were leading dancers with Dance Alloy for eight years and continue to collaborate and perform with NYC based Perks DanceMusicTheatre. 

Peter Kope 
(Choreographer/Dancer),co-founder and artistic director of Attack Theatre, has created and performed works for the Avignon Festival(France), the 7th Next Wave Dance Festival (Japan), the Spoleto Festival (Charleston SC) and the Broadway production of Squonk. 

He has also performed with Jacob Pillow's Men Dancers: The Ted Shawn Legacy, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dance Alloy and Perks DanceMusicTheatre.  Peter's interests in visual and installation art (evolving from his work at the Andy Warhol Museum), choreography and construction have led to many cross-disciplinary collaborations and site-specific commissions.  Peter has been named three times as one of the Top 50 Cultural Leaders of Pittsburgh by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2003-05.)  Peter holds a degree in Management and minor in Marketing from the University of Dayton. 

Michele de la Reza 

(Choreographer/Dancer), co-founder and artistic director of Attack Theatre, has performed throughout The US, Europe and Japan and this past summer at the Spoleto Festival for the US première of Die Vogel. 

With Peter, she is the recipient of three PA Council on the Arts fellowships, the Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts award and Pittsburgh Magazine's Fabulous 40 under 40 award.  

For eight years with Dance Alloy she performed the works of choreographers including Mark Taylor, David Rousseve, Elizabeth Streb and David Dorfman.  She danced with NYC based Perks DanceMusicTheatre for seven years.  As the resident movement coach and choreographer for the Pittsburgh Opera she has choreographed operas from Rigoletto to Carmen to Dead Man Walking.  She has taught at Mimar Sinan University, University of Pittsburgh, among others and at hundreds of primary and secondary schools.  She received her BFA from the Juilliard School and a Masters of Science in Developmental Movement/Motor Learning from the University of Pittsburgh. 

Dave Eggar 

(Musician/Composer) has performed throughout the world as a solo cellist and pianist. Recent featured engagements include Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Barbican Center Concert Hall in London, Kennedy Center Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Central Park Summerstage, Lincoln Center Festival, Stuttgart Bach Festival, Jakarta Anniversary Festival, Tokyo Blue Note, Monaco's Grimaldi Forum, Dublin Beckett Centennial, Festival di Mexico, Bali International Arts Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, Movistar Tent Barcelona, Houston Da Camera, COCA St. Louis, NOCA New Orleans, LACMA, Walker Arts Center Minneapolis, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall Tokyo, Festival Sen Surabaya, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, and many others.  

A graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, Mr. Eggar has performed and recorded with artists in many genres including the Who, Michael Brecker, Dave Sanborn, Josh Groban, Evanescence, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kathleen Battle, Eugenia Zuckerman, Manhattan Transfer, Sheryl Crow, Nelly Furtado, Corrine Bailey Rae, Ray LaMontagne, Lyfe Jennings, Abbey Lincoln, Claudio Scimone, Breaking Benjamin, Leonard Slatkin,  Ruggiero Ricci, Ornette Coleman, DJ Spooky, and many others.  A founding member of the FLUX quartet, Dave has premiered works by Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, John Cage, Sir Harrison Birtwhistle, Toshiro Mayazumi,  John Pattitucci, Gil Goldstein, Augusta Read Thomas, Conlon Nancarrow, John Eaton, Elliot Sharp, and Billy Martin.  He has collaborated extensively with dance companies as composer and performer including the New York City Ballet (Chris Wheeldon, Morphosen), Shen Wei Dance Arts (Connect Transfer), Attack Theatre (NOTO, Secret Life, Games of Steel, The Kitchen Sink, This Aint the Nutcracker), Jose Limon Company (Moor's Pavane, Ciaconne, La Malinche, Musical Offering), the Perks DanceMusicTheatre (BluePrint, Left of Fall, Carmen Suites), and Dance Brasil.  

He has won grants and awards from ASCAP, the Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Time Magazine, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the NEA, Meet the Composer, SAISON foundation, and Harvard University for his work in contemporary music.  Dave has released three solo records on the Virgin/Domo and Domo Record Group labels.  He is currently touring his recent release, Left of Blue. 
FMI:  http://www.daveeggar.com/

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