Welcome!
Pentacle is delighted to have you joining us for the eleventh season of Fall Further! This evening of performance will showcase the works of six exciting choreographers in Pentacle’s Administrative Support Program. Enjoy a collection of introspective dance works, all derived from personal experience while being relatable, thought-provoking, and expertly crafted.
Claire Porter / PORTABLES
Sexy Grammar
In Sexy Grammar, an earnest librarian lays bare the secrets of grammar.
Choreographer, Writer, & Performer: Claire Porter
Music: David Rose
Claire Porter, known for her comedic text and movement work and her skilled teaching, has received many commissions and honors including those from The Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for Arts, NJ State Council on the Arts, The Live Music for Dance Commissioning Project. Porter has an MA in Dance from Ohio State, a BA in Mathematics, and is a Laban Movement Analyst. Porter teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in the MFA program at Montclair State University, and is often a guest teacher and choreographer at universities. Porter receives support from Jody & John Arnhold.
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CoreDance Contemporary
Let Me Count The Ways (excerpt)
A movement and gestural based piece about love, this work explores the familial ties that bind us and the self-love that we behold in.
Choreographer: Rebecca McCormac
Performers: Madison Dyke, Sydney Foley, Payton Poole, Emily Slater, and Alex Ware
Music: Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm
Founded in 2011 by Artistic Director Rebecca McCormac, Australian Modern Dance Company “CoreDance Contemporary’s” mission is to empower the female voice by merging artistry and athleticism through the medium of dance performance. The company has been presented at; APAP New York City Center, The ODC Theatre San Francisco, The Dairy Arts Center Boulder, The ArtsHub Colorado, Wake Forest Dance Festival North Carolina, The Dance Complex Boston, CHI Movement Arts Center Philadelphia, and CDCFest in Orlando to name a few.
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BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance
Continually Healing
This piece investigates movement as a medium to process the trauma of societal tumult, namely the pandemic and heightened racial violence. Apart and together, as individuals and as community, we have grown through phases of emotional and physical chaos.
Crossing Through
This work explores the complex, uniquely-human journey of navigating rupture, grief and change to reach a state of healing and gratitude.
Choreographer: Teresa Fellion in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Misaki Hayama, Emma Iredale, Sabrina Petrelli and Eddie Stockton
Music: Original Music by Kiernan Robinson and John Yannelli
Costume Design: Nina Katan
Lighting Design: Teresa Fellion
BodyStories has shown work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Public Theater, Danspace Project, UF, ENTPE France, NYU, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Ailey Theater, Bryant Park SummerStage, BDF Edinburgh, Gibney Dance Ctr, NY City Center, UME, ICA Boston, 92nd St. Y, Naropa U, Franco-American Center, and in concerts with Phish. Choreography has been commissioned by NYC DOT, chashama, Island Moving Company, LEIMAY, Marcia Brooks/Various Works, Marigny Opera Ballet, Studio Republik Dubai and Hudson River Museum via the Jordan Matter exhibit.
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The Moving Architects
This all-female company will showcase two radically different dance works, both physically charged and innovative in their own right.
O my soul
Choreographer: Erin Carlisle Norton in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Emily Cicio, Kelly Guerrero, Mary Guerriero
10-Minute Intermission
The Vibe
Choreographer: Erin Carlisle Norton in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Emily Cicio, Kelly Guerrero, Mary Guerriero
Costume “Extended”: Gwen Charles
The Moving Architects is an all-female dance company based in NJ/NYC under Erin Carlisle Norton. TMA has been presented throughout the US, Central Asia, Morocco, and Guatemala, with NYC venues including BAM Fisher, Bryant Park Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, Performance Mix Festival, and Dancewave. Residencies in 2022 include MOtiVE Brooklyn, MANA Contemporary (Jersey City), and Gardenship (NJ). TMA produces Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast. Norton received 2014 and 2020 Choreographic Fellowships from NJ State Council on the Arts.
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Freespace Dance
The Many Faces Of
This work is a study in femininity inspired by qualities of the Hindu Goddesses with the recognition of the feminine experience by all genders.
Choreographer: Donna Scro Samori
Performers: Heather Dutton, Lindsey Garnhart, Emma Gentile, Joye Giuffre, Juliet Goswell, Emily Ingersoll, Abigail Linnemeyer, Junyla Silmon, and Melina Soriano
Freespace Dance, under the artistic direction of Donna Scro Samori, a former principal dancer with the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company and a founding member of Sean Curran Company, is renowned for creating emotionally driven work with a bold, athletic signature style. The company’s performance credits include Citi Center, Ailey Citigroup, DTW, Joyce SoHo, Peridance, St. Mark’s Church, NJPAC, SOPAC, OSPAC, Fringe Festival Edinburgh, DUMBO, and Jacob’s Pillow. FSD is supported by NJSCA, Hyde & Watson Foundation, NJ Cultural Trust, and New Music USA.
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The Pillow Project
NOW:PLAYING (excerpt)
A light-specific work lit entirely by designed video projection, this is a dance jazzed in slivers of light on the canvas of bodies in the dark.
*This piece includes the use of bright and strobing lights.
Choreographer: Pearlann Porter
Performers: Theo Bliss, Grace Lopez, Kevin Ocampo, and Lennon Richison
Music Composition: PJ Roduta & John Lambert
Projected Lighting Design: Pearlann Porter
The Pillow Project (est. 2004) is an improvisationally-based postmodern-jazz dance company in permanent Residence at their created warehouse-lounge The Space Upstairs (Pittsburgh). They produce light-specific performances and live jazz-happenings in both unconventional and theatrical spaces that embody their original movement language and philosophy of THE ELLIPSIS CONDITION. The Pillow Project’s work focuses on the nonfictional relationships and dynamics of the movement | artists in the moment that often play with ideas of time, reality, and memory.
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About Pentacle
Since 1976, Pentacle has been a model in the arts administration field, enabling performing artists to focus on what they do best —create art and engage with audiences. As a not-for-profit management support organization for the performing arts, Pentacle designs and provides unique and robust programs of support for artists at critical stages in their careers.
Pentacle’s Administrative Support Program (ASP) provides direct administrative services for artists looking to build more sustainable organizational operations under the guidance of Pentacle and alongside a cohort of artists with similar goals. Designed for artistic entities of all budget sizes, this program helps artists build infrastructure through ever-evolving offerings that are flexible and customizable to their needs. Artists select services to best fit their goals and, when bundled together, provide an affordable and efficient way for artists to build capacity and enlarge the scope of their business and artistic activities.
About Dixon Place
Dixon Place, an incubator for performing and literary artists since 1986, is a non-profit organization committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of dance, theater, music, puppetry, literature, performance and visual art at all stages of development. Presenting over 700 artists each year, this local haven inspires and encourages diverse artists of all stripes and callings to take risks and push personal and professional limits. Dixon Place’s foremost priorities are to serve as a safety net for artists, and to provide vivid experiences for audiences.
Dixon Place is the only non-profit theatre of its size to own and operate a full service cocktail lounge where all profits are returned to the organization to support their artists and mission. The full service cocktail lounge is open to the public from 6PM to closing with all profits supporting the Dixon Place artists and mission.
161A Chrystie Street, New York City 10002
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