Ivan Sygoda, Director ivans@pentacle.org

Hailing from Paris, France, Sophie graduated as a translator using the French, English and German languages in 1997. Passionate for dance which she practiced in Paris, she moved to NYC a year later where she worked for New York based choreographer, Marlies Yearby. In 2000 she joined Pentacle as Administrator of the Help Desk program. In 2004 Sophie moved into the Pentacle booking department where she represents an eclectic roster of dance companies. Sophie has also served on various panels throughout the US and overseas.

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Anna Brady Nuse joined Pentacle in 2001 as an administrative assistant in the booking department. In 2004 she moved to the fiscal department where she assumed responsibility of the fiscal administration of five prominent dance companies. In addition, Anna has overseen the preparation of numerous grants by Pentacle's artists to the NEA, NYSCA, and the DCA. Since 2002, Anna has emerged as a leading voice in the field of screendance (a hybrid of dance, film, and visual art forms). In addition to making her own dance videos, her work in screendance includes coordination of the Dance On Camera Festival in 2007, presenting at Danzlenz, a seminar on dance for the camera in New Delhi, India in 2006, and delivering a paper on artist-driven curating at the American Dance Festival's Screendance: State of the Art2 in 2008. From 2004-2006 she produced seven episodes of Move the Frame a television show about dance for the camera on Brooklyn and Manhattan Public Access, and she began publishing the blog, Move the Frame in 2007. In January 2008, Anna started Kinetic Cinema, a monthly dance film screening series at Collective:Unconscious. In July 2008 she launched Movement Media at Pentacle, a project which brings her expertise in dance media to assist other artists working at the intersection of dance and film. Anna has a BFA in dance from California Institute of the Arts ('99), and is currently earning a graduate certificate in Media Management at The New School University ('08)s.

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Sondra Graff came to design circuitously through the world of dance with an unanticipated stop at Parsons School of Design. She has worked with Pentacle and many of their artists for over 25 years. Sondra specializes in promotion for the performing arts community, designing for a broad range of companies and choreographers. Her work is uniquely attuned to each client and her visual voice is present in many venues. Sondra is a principal of rpm:projects, a recently founded design exchange developed with her collaborative partner Venantius J. Pinto. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Communication Design Department at FIT. When she is not designing or teaching, she can be found in the Gunks dangling from a cliff.

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