Ivan Sygoda is co-director of Pentacle, which has provided administrative and managerial services to dance companies and performing artists for over 25 years. Pentacle serves as an incubator for emerging non-mainstream and pre-mainstream dance companies, enabling them to develop and present their work.

In this podcast Ivan talks about the artist poet, why it is important to allow for mistakes and miscalculations, and how we can support emerging artists as they develop and perform their work.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

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Trumpeter/composer Frank London is a founding member of the Klezmatics, who have been expanding musical horizons for twenty years. He has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, David Byrne and many others.

In this podcast he talks about the parallel evolution of the Klezmatics and world music, what accounts for the longevity of the Klezmatics, and why people create art.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Photo Credit: Alan Roche

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Caridad Svich is an award-winning playwright, translator and lyricist. Her adaptation of Allende’s The House of the Spirits premiered February 2009 at Repertorio Español in NY, and her play Instructions for Breathing will premiere at Passage Theatre in NJ. She is an alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), and contributing editor of TheatreForum.

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Randy Gener is a Filipino American working in the fields of theatre, journalism, writing, photography and installation art. He is the award-winning author of the plays Love Seats for Virginia Woolf and What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Pieces; the photographer of the floral installation-art piece In the Garden of One World (a collaboration with designer and painter Nic Ularu); and is the senior editor of American Theatre magazine. He was recently named the winner of the Nathan Award for dramatic criticism in the 2007-08 theater year.

Photo Credit: Rivka S. Katvan

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Erik Piepenburg is a senior web producer for The New York Times. He is responsible for developing and reporting theater-related multimedia features, including audio slide shows, photo essays and audio interviews. His publication history includes theater criticism for Time Out New York, Chicago Reader and Windy City Times, in addition to features for The New York Times. He was a 2008 fellow for the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism program.

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