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.

Mark Haim is an internationally acclaimed figure in the contemporary dance world, known for his work as a performer, choreographer, and teacher.

Mark Haim is an internationally acclaimed figure in the contemporary dance world, known for his work as a performer, choreographer, and teacher.

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.

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.

Erick Montes is a choreographer and an interdisciplinary artist. His independent research explores the nuances of movement and technique in the context of improvisation and the field of the abstract imaginary, as essential aspects to the embodiment of his dances and training. 

Jennifer Nugent is a performer, educator, mother, and partner. She articulates internal experiences through performance and teaching; augmenting these practices by sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language.
 

Montay Alejandro Romero is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist. For more than a decade, his personal movement research has focused on the intersection between Vogue and contemporary forms.

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

Atlanta-based choreographer and filmmaker, Danielle Swatzie creates bold, socially conscious movement works rooted in Black identity, bridging stage and screen through immersive, thought-provoking experiences that challenge perception and deepen collective awareness.

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.