BFA Dance Lab Faculty

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Director, BFA & Low-Residency MFA

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

email donnafayeburchfield@bennington.edu

Visiting Faculty

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Visiting Faculty

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

email sidrabell@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Mikhail Calliste is a Trinidadian dance artist and maker.

email mikhailcalliste@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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

email markcaserta@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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.

email kyleclark@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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

email shaylaviejenkins@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Gary W. Jeter II has a method of moving and sharing that is influenced and inspired by many years of dancing in diverse and extended ways and working with a plethora of inspiring artists. A merge of everything he has found beneficial and enjoys, translated through his specific lens.

email garyjeter@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Niall Jones is a NYC based artist working within a constellation of curiosities, obsessions, and practices that move across dance, performance, sound, text, photography and video.

email nialljones@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Paul Matteson MFA '07 is a BESSIE Award performer and former member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. 

email paulmatteson1@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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

email michaelsheridan@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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.

email katieswordsthurman@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Song Aziza Tucker (she/her) is a project based movement and writing artist whose works have spiraled out of her love for Black femmes, music, and poetry.

email songtucker@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Emily Wexler is a Brooklyn-based 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.

email emilywexler1@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Jesse Zaritt's work engages drawing as dancing - a visual and physical practice linked to dreaming, drafting, and materializing futures. He is a Brooklyn-based dance artist.

email jessezaritt@bennington.edu