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.
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.
Sara Procopio is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, educator, and arts manager.
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.
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.
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.
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.
kira shiina (they/she) is a freelance dance artist, sound practitioner, and educator.
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.
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.
Kingsley Ibeneche is a Nigerian-American Choreographer, Dancer, Musician, and published writer.
Paul Matteson MFA '07 is a BESSIE Award performer and former member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
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).