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About Pentacle: Pentacle’s mission is to design and provide unique and robust programs of support for performing artists at critical stages in their careers. At the same time, Pentacle enriches the cultural landscape through cross-sector partnerships in multiple communities across NYC and the U.S. Since 1976, Pentacle… Read the full story

FEATURING PENTACLE’S ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT PROGRAM 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. http://www.pentacle.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/What-is-ASP.m4v Administrative Support Artists have included Urban Bush Women, slowdanger, Claire… Read the full story

Presented by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Raphael Xavier‘s “artful and mesmerizing” (Dance Magazine) work titled The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance will be shown on November 14th and 15th in Burlington, Vermont. Raphael Xavier’s work focuses on his three decade history with the hip hop aesthetic, interchanging thoughtful… Read the full story

Pentacle is pleased to announce the new line-up of artists on The Roster and Metro Intersections for 2015-2016. The Roster is made up of twelve contemporary dance companies who exemplify their respective forms. Metro Intersections is… Read the full story

Continuing its poignant exploration of American culture, David Dorfman Dance puts a lens on the underground music scene of the 1990s in “Come, and Back Again”. This evening-length, elegiac exploration of the virtuosity of daily life, vulnerability and mortality, will be presented at the Bates Dance Festival on Friday, July 25… Read the full story

February 3rd, 2014 | Author: Pentacle This blog features Marisa Gruneberg, artistic director of white road Dance Media (wrDM), which will be performing February 13-15 at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Some artists, like Pina Bausch, are more interested in creating social commentary about this world, or evoking and recapitulating… Read the full story

The all-female flamenco troupe Pasion y Arte in performance. Last week Pentacle embarked on its new MetroSTEP project— an initiative in collaboration with presenters to more fully engage and expand their audiences during our Metropolitan Intersections artists’ performances and residencies, made possible through a generous grant from DanceUSA’s… Read the full story

Sold out tours, rave reviews, and four new NDP Touring grants brings plenty of applause for our Roster and Metropolitan Intersections Artists.   Where you can find The Roster Artists this spring:  … Read the full story

For small and emerging choreographers and dance companies, Pentacle’s Gallery services have always stood out as an affordable and effective way to step into the performing arts marketplace. Now with a new and expanded menu of management support services from organizational and artistic assessments to strategic… Read the full story