Ivan Sygoda, Director ivans@pentacle.org

Ivan Sygoda joined Pentacle as Tour Manager in 1976 after a first career teaching French language and literature at various colleges in the Northeast. He became Director (with Mara Greenberg) three years later. He conceived and produced "Men Dancing" at the Theater of the Riverside Church in 1981 and 1982. He was a contributing editor to Mar ket the Arts! (FEDAPT, 1983) and to the second and third editions of the Poor Dancer's Almanac (Dance Theater Workshop, 1983; Duke University Press, 1993), contributed a chapter to Dance from Campus to the Real World (Dance/USA, 2005) and has written articles for numerous arts publications. He conceived Pentacle's "Marketing from the Inside Out" workshops for emerging and non-mainstream dance and performance com panies, and has presented them in New York, San Francisco, Washington, Boulder, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. These efforts have grown into Pentacle's Help Desk service project (1999-2007) and its recently launched ARC (Advancement-Reinvention-Creativity) strategic planning project. He directed Pentacle's National Choreography Project (1983-1988) and conceived and directed its National Dance Repertory Enrichment Program (1990-1995). He co-founded (with David White of Dance Theater Workshop) the New York State Task Force on Partnerships in Dance, now called DanceForce and of which he is currently a member. He has been a guest speaker and panelist on arts issues at professional conventions and on cable television and radio, and has lectured and led workshops on arts administration for colleges, universities and per forming arts service organizations here and abroad. He taught arts administration for several semesters at New York University in the School of Continuing Education. He has been a selection panelist for state and regional arts organizations and councils around the country. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program and Inter-Arts panelist, and is a member of the Bessies Committee (New York Dance and Performance awards) selection panel. He is a past board member of Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance, having served both as Secretary and as Parliamen tarian. He is a past President and board member of North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA), served three terms on the board of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, served also on the board of the Western Arts Alliance and is a member of the New York City Arts Coalition Steering Committee. In June of 1996, he received Dance/USA's "Ernie" award at the organiza tion's biennial Roundtable in Los Angeles. In January of 2000, he received the Associa tion of Performing Arts Presenters Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award "for exemplary service to the field of professional presenting."