Dance (MFA Low-Residency) Faculty

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

Thomas DeFrantz is a visionary artist-scholar who directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a Chicago-based collective creating provocative work at the intersection of race, gender, and emerging technology in live performance.

Ishmael Houston-Jones is a choreographer, performer, author, and curator whose work has reshaped contemporary performance through radical experimentation, collaboration, and advocacy.

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.

Ben Pranger is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores emergent systems, liminal spaces and invented worlds.

Kameelah Rasheed (رشيد جنان كاميال) is a language-based conceptual artist and educator whose expansive practice explores the life cycles of Black knowledge through text, archives, ritual, and spiritual inquiry.

Gee Wesley is an arts organizer whose work explores how the aesthetic and cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past.

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.

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner - writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds.