BRIDGMAN|PACKER DANCE
EPHRAT ASHERIE DANCE
KINETIC LIGHT
NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE
RUBBERBAND
VERSA-STYLE STREET DANCE COMPANY
PENTACLE ROSTER
Pentacle's touring Roster brings together a selection of distinguished established and emerging dance companies from the USA, Canada and India. Drawing from each artist's individual background and creative collaborations, The Roster delivers high-caliber, captivating performances and tailored activities across various dance forms - contemporary, modern, Classical Indian, disability arts, dance-theater, hip-hop, street and club dances.
Pentacle and our roster of artists share the belief that the arts strengthen communities and change people's lives. We work closely with presenters to enhance performance experiences, offering customized engagement activities that include workshops, school shows, artist talks and more.
Pentacle is a member of the following organizations.:
Member Organizations Image Description: Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), Dance Manager's Collective, Dance/USA, North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA), Pennsylvania Presenters, and Western Arts Alliance (WAA) logos in color. Each logo is placed against a white background.
Background Image Description: Two RUBBERBAND dancers perform a lift on a dark stage. Jessica Muszynski, a female dancer with long dark hair, extends all four limbs outward. She perilously dangles on the back of another dancer facing away. Photo: by Martin Morissette; RUBBERBAND.
Roster Grid Image Descriptions
A grid of six images for each artist, with the artist/company's name overlaid in white text over a faint purple background. In order, clickable text to each artist's webpage read: Bridgman|Packer Dance, Ephrat Asherie Dance, Kinetic Light, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, RUBBERBAND, Versa-Style Street Dance Company.
Images, in order:
Myrna Packer, a light skinned female dancer with curly auburn hair, thrusts her head back in a backband while the head of Art Bridgman, a light skinned male dancer with brown hair, crouches next to her in the empty space below the small of her back. They move in an industrial landscape of tan, concrete walls.
A duet of Ephrat Asherie Dance dancers explodes upward against a light gray background. Ephrat Asherie, a medium-complexion woman in a red shirt and khaki pants, leaps with her legs crossed. Moglii, a medium complexion man in similar color clothing with a brown jacket, levitates on one hand. He faces upward as he kicks his both legs; his body perpendicular to the ground.
Laurel Lawson, a white person, balances above Alice Sheppard with arms spread wide, wheels spinning. Alice, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin, opens her arms wide to receive her in an embrace.
Two Nrityagram dancers, a medium-complexioned woman in a navy blue costume and a medium-complexioned woman in a orange-red costume, form similar poses with a seated musicians in the background. With a shallow bend in both knees, the dancers ease their head to the left as both arms.
The full RUBBERBAND company perform on a dim gray stage clad in similar baggy costumes in gray and white. In a daring group lift, a dancer at the top grips at their shirt and face downward as they muscle over the other four dancers. Leg extended to the side, the four base dancers hold various parts of the lifted dancer’s body.
Two Versa-Style Street Dance Company dancers hinge backwards on the tips of their sneakers, extending into a layout against a black background. Brianna "Passion" Grey, a woman in a denim jumpsuit and red hat, extends her arm to the side as she bends her leg up to right angle. Brandon "BeastBoi" Juezan-Williams, a man in a black tee, jeans, and a white hat, forms a similar pose that is mirrored and behind Passion.