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Metropolitan Intersections, a subgroup within the Roster, was designed to address the growing mandate for presenters to diversity their programming and reach broader and younger audiences. Read the full story

Financial Urgent Care was designed specifically to assist artistic entities through extraordinary circumstances. The program is best suited for artistic entities whose finances or financial practices need an expert’s eye to enable them to form a solid foundation on which to build their artistic entities. Read the full story

Pentacle announced the launch of the Virtual Engagement Research Project (VER) to learn about how virtual engagement has grown during the pandemic, and how this has impacted artists and their livelihoods. Read the full story

Unique Projects, Inc. came into existence as a fiscal sponsorship program for artists and organizations with project-specific fundraising needs. Read the full story

Built upon the ART research project, nextSteps, is a digital platform that enables artists to connect with Pentacle in new ways, give them access to the knowledge we have gained over the years, and help them adapt to the new reality of the arts field during COVID… Read the full story

Using the findings of ART, The Gallery evolved into Administrative Support Program (ASP), an infrastructure support service that allows artists to select and bundle a variety of services and opportunities to support their individual needs and goals. Read the full story

Pentacle ran a 2.5-year research project designed to test the efficacy of bundled administrative support services and mentorship in addition to monetary funds on two cohorts of artists who were transitioning from early to mid-career. A report on the findings entitled “FootPath” was published in December 2019. Read the full story

Back Office grew out of Pentacle’s experience with Help Desk, and addressed the critical lack of direct affordable administrative and executive support for small and mid-sized dance organizations by providing participants with a part-time Managing Director. Read the full story

A comprehensive internship program for college and post-graduate students that paired them with small-to-mid-size professional dance companies/organizations, and supplied them with resources, networking, and mentorship over 8 weeks. Read the full story

Movement Media provided services, strategies, and opportunities for dance artists to make works for the screen. Kinetic Cinema was a monthly screening series in which guest artists were invited to share media that had influenced their work in dance and/or the moving image. (Ran through 2015)… Read the full story