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A few of Wells’ fondest memories — and most memorable mishaps — from the last 25 years. “Rocky vs. Baryshnikov”: “I was in Berlin and there was a boxing match. The physicality just startled me. I thought, ‘What if people come to a dance show, and there’s two guys boxing for real?’ ” To see clips of “Rocky vs. Baryshnikov”: http://tinyurl.com/y8todrx2

“Father On”: Along with “bitching and moaning about being fathers,” Wells’ 2013 exploration of parenthood featured a poker game, lunchboxes and the Sperm Folk Dance, accompanied by Hungarian folk music and video projection.

Misadventures in the lighting booth: “The door locked from the outside. One night at 4 a.m. I heard the door being jostled and the lock being shut. There was an upper door, and I climbed through and jumped down. My roommate came straggling out and I said, ‘There was a robber in here!’ She looked in her room and her bag was gone, and then she fainted.”

“Catch”: Wells and Keith Hennessy showed their work-in-progress duet at a 1993 benefit. “When I got there, Keith said, ‘I decided we should do it in the backyard and turn on the hose!’ It was a little cement space, and it filled up with a few inches of water, so we did the duet in the water.” Taking it to the streets: Wells and Hermesdorf launched in 1992 with a piece called “Home” that had a sofa as a prop. “Why didn’t we know you could rent things like pickup trucks? Four of us carried the couch almost a mile. That piece got us off to a good start.” To see clips of “Home”: http://tinyurl.com/ycbefdy5