PENTACLE’S IPAY AND APAP UPDATES: click here
ALSO, JUST ADDED: TU Dance will be showcasing at Ailey Studio #6A on Saturday, January 12 from 9.15pm to 10pm. Reservations: sophiem@pentacle.org


PENTACLE @ IPAY
Artist Representatives Sophie Myrtil-McCourty and Francine Sheffield will be attending the IPAY conference in Philadelphia from January 4 through 7. Please stop by and visit with us in
Booth 70.

And make sure you see Pentacle artist
CONTRA-TIEMPO in the
Spotlight Showcase the evening of
January 4 between 9:45 and 10:45 PM. RSVP to Sophie:
sophiem@pentacle.org
Click here for details

Pentacle’s APAP Showcase Schedule: Change and Innovation You Can Believe In
Artist Representatives Ivan Sygoda, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, Angela Luem, Francine Sheffield and Doug Post will be at Booth #108 in the Rhinelander Gallery at the Hilton. We will have showcase schedules and information about the touring repertoires of all of our artists. Be sure to come by and say hello!
Click here to read the full article

NDP TOUR SUPPORT AVAILABLE!
Generous NDP fee support (up to 50%) is available for four of Pentacle’s artists.

Bridgman | Packer Dance. Accessing the iconic paintings of Edward Hopper as a point of departure, Voyeur bears witness to fragmented moments of private lives. The work was created by choreographer/performers Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer in collaboration with filmmaker Peter Bobrow. Voyeur is an installation and performance. By design, the work can be seen in galleries as well as proscenium theaters. Voyeur incorporates a multi-surfaced set transformed through video projections, evoking spatial and psychological enclosures. Performers merge and collide with video imagery from both pre-recorded and live camera sources. Contact Angela Luem at angelal@pentacle.org for details.

Lionel Popkin. Ruth Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, an evening-length trio to a commissioned score by Guy Klucevsek, looks back at the early twentieth-century career of legendary dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis, who captivated the concert dance world with her “Oriental” dances. Popkin, a Jewish-Indian hybrid, is also drawn to images from the sub-continent, but as a post-modern choreographer he remains uneasy about exploiting these striking materials. Quicksilver choreography, swirling fabric and electric leaf blowers are our gateway into Miss Ruth’s vivid world and Popkin’s musing on the ethics and aesthetics of cultural appropriation. Contact Ivan Sygoda at ivans@pentacle.org for details.

David Roussève/Reality. Stardust explores our need for intimacy in this fast-paced technologically, driven culture. Roussève layers lush, jazz-tinged dancing with emotion-laden tweets and texts, abstract urban imagery (by video artist Cari Ann Shim Sham) , romantic 1950′s ballads by Nat “King” Cole and urgent hip-hop eruptions by composer d. Sabela Grimes. At the center of it all is the narrative of an unseen black gay teenager trying to negotiate a path through adolescence. Contact Ivan Sygoda at ivans@pentacle.org for details.

Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group. (project) Moseses Project is a full-length dance performance that examines how we lead and why we follow. Grounded in Wilson’s re-reading of Zora Neale Hurston’sMoses, Man of the Mountain (the Moses story told as a Southern folk tale in African-American vernacular), and with his exploratory travels to Israel, Egypt, Turkey and Mali, (project) Moseses Project examines the migration of peoples and culture from Africa out into the World, paying attention to the effects migration has on beliefs. Contact Sophie Myrtil-McCourty at sophiem@pentacle.org for details.
Terrific review of Fall Further
Pentacle’s Gallery showcase Fall Further, held October 1 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, was favorably reviewed by Darrell Wood of NYC Dance Stuff. Read the review here.
Congratulations Ana Maria!
International Performing Arts for the Youth (IPAY) recently selected Ana Maria Alvarez, Artistic Director of CONTRA-TIEMPO, to participate in Fresh Tracks Europe in Tanzhaus- NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany later this month. Ana Maria will be the only North America-based choreographer participating in this project focused on dance for young audiences.
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Get to know more about our four new Metropolitan Intersections companies!
Drawing from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project integrates choreography, spoken word, and live music soundscapes.
“Exciting, dynamic, rhythmic energy”
-The Star, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dakshina brings together Bharata Natyam, modern dance classics by Anna Sokolow and the company’s signature fusion work for a dynamic and global evening of dance.
“Singh’s inquistive spirit is unrivaled in the local dance community”
-Washington City Paper

Jamal Jackson Dance Company fuses various traditional African dance styles with Modern and Hip Hop techniques and diverse contemporary music styles in order to create a new, unique technique that is relevant to a multifarious community of Americans.
“Here tradition is alive, progressive and in fluid dialogue with the present.”
-DanceInsider

Pasion y Arte Flamenco creates groundbreaking contemporary feminist flamenco that is also deeply steeped in the centuries old traditions of the southern Spanish masters.
“The women of Pasion y Arte took the stage like burning embers, searing images of the flamenco idiom into our memories.”
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
WELCOME TO THE NEW SEASON!
Pentacle is pleased to announce our 2013-14 artists! We welcome the newest members of our Roster; zoe | juniper and David Roussève/Reality and extend a welcome to our new colleague Francine Sheffield, Artist Representative for the Metropolitan Intersections roster. Francine has performed and toured with choreographers such as H.T. Chen, Wendy Perron, David Roussève, Amy Pivar, Marlies Yearby and is a former company member of Urban Bush Women. She is also a recent New York University graduate with an MA in Performing Arts Administration. New editions to the Metropolitan Intersections roster Baker and Tarpaga Dance Project, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh, Jamal Jackson Dance Company and Pasion y Arte join Illstyle & Peace Productions and Sheetal Gandhi.
Click here to read the full article
Pentacle will be at the Western Arts Alliance Conference
We are looking forward to seeing all of our colleagues and friends next week at the Western Arts Alliance Conference next week! We’ll be in booth #211. Be sure and stop by to learn more about our artists and their work. Check out our Roster, Metropolitan Intersections and The Gallery home pages for more information on each of our companies.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to perform the world premiere of Another Night by Kyle Abraham
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to perform world premiere of Another Night by Pentacle Roster Artist Kyle Abraham this season.
Read the full announcement in the New York Times here
Pentacle at the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW
Pentacle is proud to announce that Roster and Metropolitan Intersections artists Ana Maria Alvarez of CONTRA-TIEMPO and Sheetal Gandhi have been invited to attend the INTERNATIONALE TANZMESSE NRW in Duesseldorf, Germany, as part of an American delegation of dance artists and administrators, under the banner The American Corner.
CONTRA-TIEMPO’s fusion of Afro-Cuban, Salsa and contemporary dance and Sheetal’s vocabulary influenced by Kathak, Modern and West African dance are exemplary representations of today’s contemporary, American modern dance.
Pentacle Artists at the PAE Independent Showcases
Several Pentacle Artists are set to participate in the RCAM/Dance NOW! Independent Showcase at PAE. Pentacle companies will be showcasing all three nights at the Little Haiti Cultural Center 212-260 NE 59th Terrace, Miami. Don’t miss them in action! There will be a shuttle from the Fontainebleau Hotel and The Colony to the Little Haiti Cultural Center and back to the hotel after the showcase each night.
RSVP to see these artists with Angela Luem at angelal@pentacle.org
Wednesday 9/19:
09:30pm KDNY Dance Company
10:04pm Illstyle & Peace Productions
10:21pm CONTRA-TIEMPO
11:12pm casebolt and smith
Thursday 9/20:
09:30pm CONTRA-TIEMPO
10:21pm Bridgman|Packer Dance
10:38pm danceTactics performance group
10:55pm KDNY Dance Company
Friday 9/21:
10:38pm BARKIN/SELISSEN Project
10:55pm Illstyle & Peace Productions
11:12pm blue13 dance company
Congratulations to Illstyle & Peace Productions!
Illstyle & Peace Productions has just been announced as one of the U.S. Department of State’s DanceMotion USA℠ artists. Now in its third season, DanceMotion USA℠ sends American dance companies overseas to connect with audiences and communities through dance workshops, lecture demonstrations, public performances and other arts education activities. Illstyle & Peace Productions is among the four handpicked dance companies to tour three of the twelve countries; Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.
Please visit the DanceMotion USA℠ website for more information.

For more information on Illstyle & Peace Productions contact Artist Representative, Francine Sheffield at francines@pentacle.org
Pentacle proudly announces that two of our Roster companies have received an NDP Production Grant and are eligible for NDP tour support in the 2013-14 season!
Pentacle’s Roster artists
David Roussève/Reality and
Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group are both eligible for National Dance Project Tour Support in the 2013-14 season.

David Roussève/Reality is creating
Stardust. This non-narrative story of a gay black teen negotiating a difficult urban adolescence juxtaposes a grandmother’s unconditional love (and the lush Nat “King” Cole standards she adored) against a harsh and threatening hip-hop milieu.

For more information contact Ivan Sygoda at
ivans@pentacle.org


Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group is creating a new piece titled (project) Moseses Project. This work is grounded in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Moses, Man of the Mountain, and with exploratory travels to Israel, Egypt, Turkey and Mali, (project) Moseses Project looks at the migration of peoples and culture out of Africa and into the rest of the world.
Pentacle welcomes the newest members of our Roster: zoe | juniper and David Roussève/Reality.

We welcome our new colleague Francine Sheffield, Artist Representative for the Metropolitan Intersections roster.
Barker & Tarpaga Dance Project, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh, Jamal Jackson Dance Company,and Pasión y Arte Flamenco join Sheetal Gandhi and Illstyle & Peace Productions on Intersections.

New to the The Gallery this season are Robin Becker Dance, Blue13 Dance Company, Bryn Cohn and Artists, Dance Iquail!, Duniya Dance and Drum Company, Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, and Prashant Shah.
APPLY NOW for Gallery Representation 2012-2013
Pentacle is accepting submissions from companies for consideration for Gallery representation during 2012-2013. There is no formal application per se, but we require press materials, performance/touring schedule from the past 2-3 years, a DVD of work samples which includes a full length performance, and a fee schedule.
Click Here for more information or contact Doug Post:
dougp@pentacle.org or 212.278.8111 x315
CONTRA-TIEMPO and Camille A. Brown & Dancers to pitch at FOCUS Dance during APAP
Click here to find out the location and times of the pitches
Pentacle’s APAP Showcase Schedule: Change and Innovation
Artist Representatives Ivan Sygoda, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, Angela Luem, Lauren Nixon and Doug Post will be at Booth #200 in the Rhinelander Gallery at the Hilton. We will have showcase schedules and information about the touring repertoires of all of our artists. Be sure to come by and say hello!
Rhinelander Gallery at the Hilton
Booth #200
Click here for the full article and showcase schedule
Pentacle welcomes David Roussève/Reality to its Roster
Los Angeles-based choreographer David Roussève has joined the Pentacle roster. He is creating “Stardust” for his Reality company, a smash-up of hip-hop and Nat “King” Cole that explores the idea of intimacy in an age of technology. Contact Ivan Sygoda @ ivans@pentacle.org or 212.278.8111 ext 300 for details.
Pentacle announces 2012-2013 Artists – click here!
NDP Recipients for 2012-13!
Roster and Metropolitan Intersections Artists Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Lucky Plush Productions and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group have all received a production grant from the National Dance Project for new works available for tour during the 12/13 season. For more information on each company, please visit:
www.pentacle.org/kyleabraham
www.pentacle.org/camilleabrown
www.pentacle.org/luckyplushproductions
www.pentacle.org/reggiewilson
Check out our Spring newsletter here!
Check out Kyle Abraham’s Dance Magazine review
This is a review of Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion’s latest performance at Joe’s Pub.
Click Here
Congratulations to Illstyle & Peace Productions!
Illstyle & Peace Productions were voted into the New York Times list of Top Dance 2010. The article said, ” its members offer rigor and precision, breathtaking challenges to gravity and physical limits, and a vision of human possibility.” To read the complete article
Click Here
Pentacle Announces 2011-2012 Artists
Pentacle is thrilled to welcome four new companies to our Roster for the 11-12 booking season
Click Here to learn more
Pentacle’s APAP Showcase Schedule
January 7, 2011
January 9, 2011
Artist Representatives Ivan Sygoda, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, Angela Luem, Michelle Coe and Doug Post will be at Booth #106 in the Rhinelander Gallery at the Hilton.
Click Here to learn more