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Pentacle is delighted to have you joining us live and in-person for the twelfth season of Fall Further! This evening of performance will showcase the works of five exciting choreographers in Pentacle’s Administrative Support Program. From a side splitting dive into the phenomenon of pronouns, to stirring aerial work intermingled with melancholic naturistic projections, to a creative mix of bungee and modern dance, an evening of intriguing dance performance awaits.
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About the Works
Nostalgia's Window
by milkleaf
Dancing light and shadow tether a solitary figure to ancestors at once familiar and distant. Peering through the window of nostalgia, the dancer marks her memory of forgetting. Within the fire of her isolation, matrilineal tendrils unfold. Lucent. Vivid. Flashing.
Direction & Choreography: Charlotte Griffin
Dance & Collaboration: Waeli Wang
Original Music: Milica Paranosic
Cinematography: Grant Speich
Light & Video Design for Stage: Omar Ramos
Costume Design: Kaylynn Sutton
Scenic Design: Szu-Feng Chen
Scenic Construction: Geronimo Guzman
Aerial Rigging: Charlotte Griffin, Grant Speich, & Waeli Wang
Green Dress Circle
by Claire Porter / PORTABLES
Green Dress Circle introduces the audience to where they are... in their seats in this particular theater, on Chrystie St.
Choreographer and Performer: Claire Porter
My Back to You (2019)
by Freespace Dance
This tender duet reflects the many aspects and the willingness to stay committed through the ups and downs. Even when my back is to you, I am with you.
Choreographer: Donna Scro Samori
Performers: Andrew Kruep and Emily Ingersoll
Music: Philip Glass
Pronouns for Dinner
by Claire Porter / PORTABLES
Pronouns for Dinner celebrates the phenomenon of pronouns: the they, them, we, us, I, me, and you, as well as it, that, these, and those.
Choreographer and Performer: Claire Porter
Music: Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass
The Sound of Migration (excerpts)
by Sonia Plumb Dance Company
This work is designed to energize eco-activism for climate change on a local and global level. Inspired by flora and fauna migrations, cultural dances, rituals and movement patterns from five distinct cultures and climates, this piece asks audiences to consider, “How do we bring the knowledge of the past to help us create a new future? We must first love where we are.”
Choreographer: Sonia Plumb
Performers: Maddy Hall, Madison O'Halloran, Daniel Rocha, Sarah McCarthy, Erin Raymond, Robert Weatherington
Composer: Jeph Vanger
Lighting Designer and Technical Director: Craig Gehr
Inside the Quiet (2020)
by Freespace Dance
Inside the Quiet is a piece that explores the missing, broken or hidden parts of ourselves. The work explores anxiety, depression, and the inner stirrings of the consciousness along with the burden that it can carry. The dancers support each other in their shared secrets and understanding of their struggle.
Choreographer: Donna Scro Samori
Performers: Juliet Goswell, Emily Ingersoll, Victoria Mergola May
Music by Meredith Monk and Max Richter
O my soul
by The Moving Architects
This duet combines dynamic dance, film, and interactive props to explore the visceral dichotomies we experience in life: tension and release, speed and stillness, exertion and recuperation, and being alone and together. The title references biblical laments uttered during times of trial.
Choreography: Erin Carlisle Norton in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Emily Cicio and Kelly Guerrero
Music: “dug in” by Frank Bretschneider and Taylor Deupree, “Get in the Car” by Travis Lake
Dance Film: dancer, choreographer, videographer, editor: Erin Carlisle Norton
Additional videographer support: Michael and Miles Norton
Music: “Wings 3” by Michael Wall
About the Artists
milkleaf
Charlotte Griffin is a choreographer and filmmaker exploring the vulnerability and power of the human experience within live and digitally integrated dances. Her concert repertory has been commissioned by The Cambrians, American Dance Festival, Juilliard School, BJM Danse and more. She has been a guest artist at ArcDanz, Lux Boreal, Springboard Danse Montreal, and Korea National University of Arts. In 2020 she founded milkleaf to support multidisciplinary collaboration across a broad aesthetic and technological field.
Website / Instagram
Claire Porter / PORTABLES
Claire Porter, known for her comedic text and movement work and her skilled teaching, has received many commissions and honors including those from The Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for Arts, and NJ State Council on the Arts. Her PORTABLES is a series of solos and small group works that are designed to be portable. Performance spaces have included boats, backyards, art galleries, science labs, homes, phone booths, conferences, world's fairs, weddings, fund raisers, building dedications.
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Freespace Dance
Freespace Dance is renowned for creating emotionally driven work with a bold, athletic signature style. Artistic Director, Donna Scro Samori, is a former principal dancer with the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company & a founding member of Sean Curran Company. Her work has been applauded as having a humanistic quality that “goes straight to the heart.” FSD has performed nationally and internationally, and is at the forefront of modern dance education in New Jersey. FSD has received grants from GR Dodge Foundation, NJ Council on the Arts & New Music USA
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Sonia Plumb Dance Company
Sonia Plumb Dance Company (SPDC) was founded as a non-profit with the mission: to enrich, educate and inspire audiences through innovative modern dance with the goal of creating a transformative perspective of the world. Based in CT/NYC, SPDC’s programs have included multi-genre stage performances, award winning arts integration residencies, collaborations and apprenticeship training for underserved BIPOC youth. Sonia has thrice received the CT Office of the Arts Fellowship for Artistic Excellence and is one of nine artists nationwide to receive the Community Legacy Project Award.
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The Moving Architects
The Moving Architects (TMA), under Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton, is a NJ/NYC dance company that has performed, taught, and toured internationally and across the U.S, including projects in NJ, NYC, KY, NC, MN, PA, and WA. Creating dance works that use feminist narratives and ideologies that are deeply explored through collaborative processes, among her accolades, Norton has received two Fellowships in Choreography from the NJ State Council on the Arts. TMA produces the dance interview podcast Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast.
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About Pentacle
Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.) is a not-for-profit management support organization for the performing arts, established in 1976. Through its Artist Services, Education & Outreach, and New Initiatives, Pentacle serves a broad spectrum of the performing arts community both locally in New York City and nationally.
Pentacle’s Administrative Support Program (ASP) is supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Pentacle receives private support for ASP from the Howard Gilman Foundation. The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
About Dixon Place
Dixon Place, an incubator for performing and literary artists since 1986, is a non-profit organization committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of dance, theater, music, puppetry, literature, performance and visual art at all stages of development. Presenting over 700 artists each year, this local haven inspires and encourages diverse artists of all stripes and callings to take risks and push personal and professional limits. Dixon Place’s foremost priorities are to serve as a safety net for artists, and to provide vivid experiences for audiences.
Dixon Place is the only non-profit theatre of its size to own and operate a full service cocktail lounge where all profits support their artists and mission. The full service cocktail lounge is open to the public from 6PM to closing with all profits supporting the Dixon Place artists and mission.
161A Chrystie Street, New York City 10002
dixonplace.org | @dixonplace | facebook.com/dixonplace
Land Acknowledgment
Pentacle acknowledges that its offices in lower Manhattan and Dixon Place are built on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Munsee, Lenape, and Mohican peoples on the island of Mannahatta in Lenapehoking.
Pentacle strives to honor their heritage and commits to actively learn about the deep historical ties of Indigenous land and communities.
Learn more about the native peoples that inhabited the land you live and work on!