BFA Dance Lab Faculty
![Image of Donna Faye Burchfield](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/donnafaye.jpeg.webp?itok=bDDIlGYw)
Donna Faye Burchfield is the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance at Bennington College.
Visiting Faculty
![Image of Sidra Bell](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/bell-sidra_320x230px_0.jpg.webp?itok=UWs0haOZ)
Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a dancer, choreographer, and educator.
![Image of Mark Caserta](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/caserta-mark_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=BDC8kdH4)
Mark Caserta is a queer dance maker from Philly, where they direct the movement collective BIGKID DANCE.
![Image of Kyle “JustSole” Clark](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/clark-kyle_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=UIzNsXh_)
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.
![Image of Shayla-Vie Jenkins](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/jenkins-shayla-vie_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=zQmjt_Cf)
Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a Philadelphia-based performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, writer, and mama.
![Image of Gary W. Jeter II](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/jeter-gary_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=suK15JDA)
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.
![Image of Niall Jones](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/jones-niall_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=xyCGT0_b)
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.
![Image of Paul Matteson](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/matteson-paul_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=M_2l0tOA)
Paul Matteson MFA '07 is a BESSIE Award performer and former member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
![Image of Michael Sheridan](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/sheridan-michael_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=Q3MocWS1)
Michael Sheridan is a Philadelphia-based artist, activist, and educator.
![Image of Katie Swords-Thurman](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/swords-thurman-katie_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=ep4ZxAdw)
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.
![Image of Song Tucker](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/tucker-song_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=_4NVJKFa)
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.
![Image of Emily Wexler](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/wexler-emily_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=DtcgSSvd)
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.
![Image of Jesse Zaritt](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/zaritt-jesse_320x230px.jpg.webp?itok=UedY0WKN)
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.