Jessica Gaynor Dance premieres Free Fall, an evening length piece based on force as it applies to physicality, momentum, bodies in space and contact interactions. Themes explored include dynamic equilibrium, centripetal force, gravity, thrust, torque, drag and friction. Accompanying the dance will be music by Quentin… Read the full story
Performances by David Dorfman Dance, danceTactics, LCTC – Lorraine Chapman the Company, LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, and The Moving Architects. Monday October 13 at 7:30 PM Ailey Citicorp Theater, 405 West 55 Street (at 9th Avenue) Tickets: $15 at the door; $12 on-line purchases; $10… Read the full story
February 3rd, 2014 | Author: Pentacle This blog features Marisa Gruneberg, artistic director of white road Dance Media (wrDM), which will be performing February 13-15 at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Some artists, like Pina Bausch, are more interested in creating social commentary about this world, or evoking and recapitulating… Read the full story
Whether a choreographer who becomes an Artistic Director, or a folklorico dancer who becomes the Director of a community based company, or a former ballet dancer who starts a ballet company in a town that does not have one—often dance companies spring from vision, from passion, from a dream to… Read the full story
Pentacle’s keystone management support programs Help Desk® and Back Office are about to complete another successful program cycle. Working with 12 organizations in Los Angeles, 4 in San Francisco and 7 in Chicago, participants have worked closely with their mentors on articulating… Read the full story
Below are some of the great things Pentacle’s Gallery Artists are up to this spring. For more in depth coverage of these artists’ work please check out our Gallery Portraits blog. Blue13 Dance Company is hard at work on their new… Read the full story
For small and emerging choreographers and dance companies, Pentacle’s Gallery services have always stood out as an affordable and effective way to step into the performing arts marketplace. Now with a new and expanded menu of management support services from organizational and artistic assessments to strategic… Read the full story