Collaborative work is at the heart of BARKIN/SELISSEN PROJECT arising from the diverse backgrounds of Co-Artistic Directors Kyla Barkin and Aaron Selissen. They first connected as dancers performing together in several companies, including Janis Brenner and Dancers, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, and Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends. Read the full story
“We bring step everywhere!” remarks Maxine Lyle, founder and artistic director of Soul Steps, a ‘stepping’ company that celebrated its ten year anniversary in 2015 and continues to educate communities about this African-American traditional rhythmic dance technique. Lyle is eager to teach all types of communities… 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
Clockwise from top left: Jessica Gaynor Dance, Indah Walsh Dance Company, Mersiha Mesihovic/CircuitDebris, The Moving Architects Sunday, May 10 Indah Walsh Dance Company – Cheerleaders at a Wedding Tisch Alumni Choreographic Workshop @ NYC Tisch (4th Floor, Studio 2) Admission is free! Friday, May 15 and… Read the full story
Pentacle will be hosting a showcase for five artists from The Gallery roster at Green Street Studios on April 24 and 25 at 8pm in Boston. Participating Companies: Lorraine Chapman The Company (MA)… Read the full story
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
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