Dance (BFA): Related Content
The Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet Eilber, danced with the company in the 1970s, sometimes under the direction of Graham herself and in roles Graham had written for herself. Now, she has the pleasure of designing the program for the company’s first-ever performance at Bennington on Saturday, March 28.
Panorama, created at Bennington, will feature Bennington College’s BA and BFA dance students.
Nate Tantral-Johnson ’26 transferred from The University of the Arts to Bennington College in 2024. They study dance along with writing and film.
Bennington College and former University of the Arts faculty and students dance into the future. By Elizabeth Zimmer '66
Bennington College is pleased to announce that choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham will address the class of 2025 at Commencement.
Faculty members from Bennington College's BFA Dance Lab share their recent awards, accolades, and projects.
Bennington College President Laura Walker and the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance Donna Faye Burchfield joined City Cast Philly to discuss how Bennington saved the storied UArts dance program.
Dance Magazine highlighted the 36 BFA students, 20 continuing low-residency MFA students, and 13 faculty members from University of the Arts who have merged into Bennington College.
After the University of the Arts in Philadelphia closed, Bennington College announced the school’s dance program will be revived as the College absorbs the dance school, three staff members and nearly 50 students.
In a rapid effort to preserve the dance programs shut down by the unexpected closure of the University of the Arts (UArts) on June 7, Bennington College summoned its forces, in collaboration with the UArts dance program, and will welcome students and faculty from the shuttered college’s BFA program this fall.
Kingsley Ibeneche is a Nigerian-American Choreographer, Dancer, Musician, and published writer.
kira shiina (they/she) is a freelance dance artist, sound practitioner, and educator.
Paul Matteson MFA '07 is a BESSIE Award performer and former member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
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.
Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a dancer, choreographer, and educator.
Juel D. Lane is an artist from Atlanta and the current director of the UNCSA Choreographic Institute. Passionate about telling compelling stories infused with a personal touch. His work strives to reveal the humanity within each artist and performance.
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.
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.
Mark Haim is an internationally acclaimed figure in the contemporary dance world, known for his work as a performer, choreographer, and teacher.
Rena Butler is a recipient of the 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Award and the 2024 Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Choreography. She was Gibney Company’s inaugural Choreographic Associate, and has created works for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, AIM by Kyle Abraham, Whim W'Him, Het Nationale Ballet, The San Francisco Opera, and many more.
Jasmine Hearn is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer and was recently named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025).
Mark Caserta is a queer dance maker from Philly, where they direct the movement collective BIGKID DANCE.
Jesse Zaritt is a choreographer, performer, and educator whose work activates drawing as dancing—an embodied, visual practice linked to dreaming and drafting futures.
Donna Faye Burchfield is the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance at Bennington College.
Philadelphia-born dancer, choreographer, and writer Cameron Childs creates work at the intersection of architecture and Black embodiment, tracing spatial memory and resilience.
Michael Sheridan is a Philadelphia-based artist, activist, and educator.
Netta Yerushalmy is a New York–based choreographer whose interdisciplinary work explores perception and meaning. She’s received major fellowships and presents internationally at leading venues and institutions.
Sara Procopio is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, educator, and arts manager.
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.
