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.

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

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

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.