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Position

Project Assistant (8 hrs/wk, paid $15-18/hr commensurate with experience)

Pentacle is currently seeking a part-time temporary Project Assistant (April-June) to provide administrative and programmatic support for our Movement Media Project.

Organization

Located in mid-town Manhattan, Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.) has been a fundamental resource for the performing arts community for over 30 years. We provide some the country’s most exciting artists with essential administrative services and service the broader performing arts community with innovative projects of local and national impact.

Program

Pentacle’s Movement Media Project includes screenings, workshops, consultations and online publications to provide dance artists with services, strategies, and opportunities to assist them in making works for screen and in marketing themselves using new media technologies.

Move the Frame, launched in 2007, is a blog with an international following which serves as a clearinghouse of information and locus of dialogue about dance and media. Kinetic Cinema, a monthly dance film screening series began in January 2008, is curated and hosted by guests from the dance community ranging from performers and choreographers to critics and filmmakers. In the Fall of 2009, Movement Media also provided services and workshops to artists to help them to learn media skills and craft marketing strategies for their work.

Job Description

The Project Assistant will work closely with the project director and other Pentacle staff to help build this project from the ground up.

Project Assistant activities will consist of (but are not limited to): Programming and curatorial assistance, Development assistance & research, Fundraising assistance, Video documentation and archiving, marketing and communications.

Application instructions

Interested individuals are encouraged to apply immediately. Please send a cover letter and resume to Director of Movement Media, Anna Brady Nuse at annan@pentacle.org or to Pentacle, 246 West 38th Street, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10018.

More info

Web: http://pentacle.org/movement_media.asp

I’m very pleased to announce the start of a new season of Kinetic Cinema, with the first screening happening at 8pm on Monday Sept 8th at Chez Bushwick. As you might of heard, our original presenting partner, Collective:Unconscious unexpected lost their space in Tribeca this July when their basement was flooded and they were forced out by their landlord. It is a sad and all too familiar story of endangered affordable art spaces in Manhattan. Luckily Chez Bushwick has stepped in and saved the day for this program, and their director, Jonah Bokaer has curated a fabulous selection of films drawing from Chez Bushwick’s constituency of dancers and choreographers.

“PRIME MOVER: Dance on Camera From Chez Bushwick” is a program of works created to represent the diversity of artists working in movement-based media. Filmmakers and choreographers featured on the program will be Charles Atlas, DD Dorvillier, Jillian Peña, Dean Moss, Samuael Topiary, and Ann Liv Young.

Pentacle Movement Media presents:
Kinetic Cinema
in collaboration with Chez Bushwick
Monday September 8th, 8:00pm (and the first Monday of every month)
$5 Admission (buy tix at the door)

Chez Bushwick
304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11
Brooklyn, NY 11206.
Phone: 718.418.4405
URL: http://chezbushwick.net/
Trains: L to Morgan Ave
Admission: $5

In addition, we also wish to recognize and support Jillian Peña, a choreographer and filmmaker on this program who was hit by a car three weeks ago and sustained very serious injuries and hospitalization. The driver was unlicensed, and Jillian, like many artists in our community does not have health insurance. Her dear friend and colleague, Miguel Gutierrez has set up a paypal account to receive financial donations to alleviate the financial hardship that Jillian and her family are experiencing at this time. In addition, there will be opportunities to make donations for her at the screening. Please consider making a donation on her behalf. ANY amount, any number of times that you can give it, will be invaluable for her and for her family.

To donate online, go to paypal.com and sign up for an account (takes literally about 2-3 minutes) and then go to the “Send Money” tab and make the donation to:
donations4jillian@gmail.com

Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month curator Anna Brady Nuse invites a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Past programs have included fresh new shorts from the Dance On Camera Festival, a survey of the history of mediatized movement curated by Brian McCormick, dance films from the popular to the avant-garde curated by Malinda Allen, feminist video art curated by Jonah Bokaer, explorations in experimentalism with Levi Gonzalez, and a tour of inspiringly bad dance films curated by Kriota Willberg. Next month on October 6th, dance writer and critic Elizabeth Zimmer will curate.

This screening of Kinetic Cinema also marks the first event of Movement Media, a new project I am directing at Pentacle that provides screenings, consulting services, and online interactive programs for dancers about dance and media. More information will be available soon online at pentacle.org. In addition to producing Kinetic Cinema, Movement Media will soon become the home of Move the Frame. Stay tuned for more announcements!