Dance (BFA): Related Content
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.
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.
Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation.
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.
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.
Atlanta-based choreographer and filmmaker, Danielle Swatzie creates bold, socially conscious movement works rooted in Black identity, bridging stage and screen through immersive, thought-provoking experiences that challenge perception and deepen collective awareness.
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.
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.
Curt Haworth is a choreographer and improvise. He is currently designing evenings of spontaneous music and dance in collaboration with Free Fleet and Studio 34.
Jennifer Nugent is a performer, educator, mother, and partner. She articulates internal experiences through performance and teaching; augmenting these practices by sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language.
Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a Philadelphia-based performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, writer, and mama.
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.
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.
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).