Dance (BFA) Faculty

Donna Faye Burchfield is the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance at Bennington College. 

Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a dancer, choreographer, and educator.

Mark Caserta is a queer dance maker from Philly, where they direct the movement collective BIGKID DANCE.

Philadelphia-born dancer, choreographer, and writer Cameron Childs creates work at the intersection of architecture and Black embodiment, tracing spatial memory and resilience.

Kyle “JustSole” Clark is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, and street dance competitor who has dedicated 20+ years to the cultivation, transmission, and preservation of Hip Hop/Street and club dance forms/cultural traditions.

Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation.

Jasmine Hearn is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer and was recently named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025).

Kingsley Ibeneche is a Nigerian-American Choreographer, Dancer, Musician, and published writer.

Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a Philadelphia-based performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, writer, and mama.

Juel D. Lane is an artist from Atlanta and the current director of the UNCSA Choreographic Institute. Passionate about telling compelling stories infused with a personal touch. His work strives to reveal the humanity within each artist and performance.

Michael Sheridan is a Philadelphia-based artist, activist, and educator.

Katie Swords Thurman is a Philly-based dance artist whose pedagogic and choreographic work is influenced by the power, disquiet, and joy stirring within oneself.

Emily Wexler is a Bessie-nominated choreographer and dancer whose work explores the existential capacities of dance and performance through a collective exploration of memory and time. She works collaboratively in her work with dancers, students, artists, and senior citizens.

Jesse Zaritt is a choreographer, performer, and educator whose work activates drawing as dancing—an embodied, visual practice linked to dreaming and drafting futures.