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Congratulations to Pentacle’s Roster Artist, Dance Heginbotham, selected for the New York State Presenters Network 2016-2017 Touring Roster. The New York State Presenters Network Presenter/Artist Partnership Project is intended to stimulate innovative professional performing arts presenting, community engagement activities, and audience development in… Read the full story

Coming up November 7 (Fairfield, CT) and November 10 (Gainesville, NY), David Dorfman Dance will take Come And Back Again and Prophets of Funk on the road.  Prophets of Funk is a retrospective that digs into the groundbreaking, visceral, and powerful music of Sly & The Family Stone-… Read the full story

Five of Pentacle’s Gallery artists performed for a packed house in Pentacle Presents: Fall Further IV at Dixon Place on Sunday, October 4th. The evening featured both celebrated and brand new works by Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co., Indah Walsh Dance Company,… Read the full story

Congratulations to Pentacle’s Roster Artist, Illstyle & Peace Productions, for being selected for MAAF’s 2016-2017 Mid Atlantic Tours Roster. Mid Atlantic Tours provides funding for mid-Atlantic-based presenters engaging artists from their roster.  Artists are selected for the roster based on their ability to engage broad regional participation… Read the full story

New Roster Artist, and percussive dance innovator, Max Pollak, will release his CD, RumbaTap with a celebratory concert next Wednesday, October 7th, at East Village hotspot, DROM. RumbaTap is a stunning portal into an entirely new sonic experience of Afro-Latin music driven by percussive dance. It is the first album… Read the full story

October has arrived and with it brings Dance Heginbotham’s Joyce debut.  Performances include three New York premieres, each performed with live music: Angels’ Share, Diamond (a solo for Kristen Foote), and Easy Win. Performances are Saturday, October 10 at 8 pm, and Sunday,… Read the full story

“The only proper response to dancers this amazing is worship,” Brian Seibert of The New York Times raved after Nrityagram Dance Ensemble’s engagement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last winter. Based near Bangalore, India, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble is the foremost proponent of the classical Indian… Read the full story

This fall Bridgman|Packer Dance tours the Northeast performing Remembering What Never Happened and Truck.  For much of the tour, they will be traveling in a 17-foot U-Haul, which will also serve as the performance space for Truck.  As they are getting ready for the tour, we had the chance to ask Artistic Directors… Read the full story

Congratulations to Prashant Shah on his award from the Hindu Temple in Omaha, NE! The temple honored three US-based artists for their contributions to their respective classical dance fields. Prashant was one of the recipients of the award for his… Read the full story

At the invitation of the embassies in Armenia and Turkey, David Dorfman Dance traveled to central Asia to tour Unsettled at the Khachatryan Theater in Yerevan, Armenia and the Zorlu Performance Center in Istanbul, Turkey earlier this week. With State Department funding, DDD was able to reunite with Turkish Company Korhan… Read the full story