Dance: Related Content
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced its 2016 grant recipients. Among the winners are Barbara Bloom ’72 for her work in the visual arts, and Melinda Ring MFA ’01 for her dance and performance work. Former faculty member in dance Nora Chipaumire, who taught at Bennington in 2009, also received an award.
Rokenri, an avant-rock trio, including alumni Ethan Woods ’12, and Trevor Wilson ’09, will present "Tube on the Way Under," at Lincoln Center on Dec. 17th. Dancer Lydia Chrisman ’12, will perform, as well.
In a new project at the Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, artists, dancers, curators, students, and thinkers from China and the U.S. are turning the process of collaboration into a form of art. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 1:00 to 5:00 pm; admission is free.
Road to Paradise, a dance and theatre piece written and choreographed by Carson Efird ‘05, was restaged at the 10th annual Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival and featured Bahar Barharloo ‘14, Rory Cullen ‘15, and several students and faculty.
Faculty member Susan Sgorbati has published a book with Emily Climer ’12 and Marie Lynn Haas ’12 on Emergent Improvisation: Where Dance Meets Science on Spontaneous Composition.
Choreographer Liz Lerman ’69 (below, center) was one of 50 artists this year to receive a $50,000 fellowship from United States Artists (USA).
Bennington College this summer became the first American school to participate in the European Schools Festival at the National Center of Contemporary Dance in France.
Dance faculty member and professional mediator Susan Sgorbati has been awarded a six-week Creative Research residency at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
Choreographer and performer Susan Rethorst '74 is one of five artists to receive the 2010 Alpert Award in the Arts, a $75,000 prize to support her ongoing work in contemporary dance.
A real-time video performance by alumni Madeline Best '08 and Brian Rogers '95 was "radical in that word's primary sense," raved New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.
Dance faculty member Dana Reitz and dancer/choreographer Sara Rudner MFA '99 garnered rave reviews for their recent reprisal of their 1994 show Necessary Weather at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York.
"Be enthusiastic about your work, but always stay humble," filmmaker Mitchell Lichtenstein '78 told a room full of Bennington students as part of the "Beyond Bennington" speaker series, which invites alumni to campus to discuss their careers with current students.
The Bennington College community mourns the loss of friend and pioneering dance choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died on Sunday, July 26, at the age of 90 years old.
The Yard, an artists' colony for choreographers on Martha's Vineyard, kicked off its 2009 season on Friday, June 26, with a weekend event dedicated to its late founder Patricia N. Nanon '44.
The Yard, an artists' colony for choreographers on Martha's Vineyard, kicks off its 2009 season on June 26th with a weekend event dedicated to Yard founder and Bennington alumna Patricia N. Nanon '44.
Fans of the best-selling Twilight book series are sinking their teeth into Melissa Rosenberg '86's highly anticipated film adaptation, which hit 5,500 screens starting with a midnight viewing on November 21.
Susan Sgorbati is a professional mediator and educator whose creative research has led to collaboration across disciplines and borders as both an artist and a driver of social change.
Molly Lieber is performing and touring in projects for luciana achugar, Oren Barnoy, Wally Cardona, Brian Rogers, and Donna Uchizono. Her work with Eleanor Smith premiered at New York Live Arts in March 2019.
Martín Lanz is an Interdisciplinary artist and cultural manager with an emphasis on performing arts. He works collaboratively with artists from different disciplines and latitudes, uses tools and information from several territories, and experiments with them to generate pieces, collaborations, artist meetings, and international exchange projects.
Improvisational performer, choreographer, and Senior Lecturer Emerita of Dance at Middlebury College
Bessie and Alpert award-winning dance-maker, improvisational performer, and collaborative artist who developed an approach to real-time editing, “attentionography,” and performance she calls Tuning Scores
Eleanor Bauer is a performer and choreographer working at the intersections of dance, writing, and music. Her work is a profound synthesis of physical, conceptual, affective, emotional, formal, and aesthetic understandings.
Member of Trisha Brown Dance Company in the 1970s, choreographer, former editor-in-chief of Dance Magazine, and author of Through the Eyes of a Dancer
Renowned choreographer of works performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the New York City Ballet
Tal Shibi is a native Jerusalem choreographer, improvisor, performer, and teacher of dance, CI, and somatic awareness. He is continuously curious in exploring collaborations between different art forms, and widening the perceptions of performance and dance.
Former performer and associate artistic director of Elizabeth Streb’s Ringside company, known for its athletic, gravity-defying choreography, whose own Bessie award-winning work has been performed at Danspace, Dance Theater Workshop, and other high-profile venues
Photograph © Lois Greenfield
An instigator of space, bodies, and ideas who wears his heart on his sleeve and the sky on his arm - while working in lighting design, scenic design, curation, and installation art - Mark O’Maley is a Vermont based artist who has a fascination with how people use and inhabit space. He lights mostly dance.
Tilly Grimes is an Irish/Greek theater, opera, and film designer based in New York.
Richard MacPike brings his experience working on Broadway shows such as The Lion King and companies like the Santa Fe Opera and Glimmerglass to his work as costume shop manager at Bennington.
