Student News
Senior Dance Concert Showcases Personal Vision and Artistic GrowthOn the evening of Friday, May 2, 2025, at Martha Hill Dance Theater at Bennington College, Bachelors of Arts students who produced Advanced Work in Dance performed To the Point: Senior Dance Concert.
A Story of Voice and Vision: A Boy Named Salmon by Rachel McCauley ’25A Boy Named Salmon, a play by Rachel McCauley ’25, wasn’t just a production—it’s a deeply personal, defiant, and resonant exploration of identity, belonging, and the discomfort of truth-telling in so-called progressive spaces. It was presented in Margot Tenney Theater on Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, 2025.
A Story of Ascension and AcceptanceLuca Daly '25 studies fashion design and printmaking at Bennington. In collaboration with the Advanced Design and Collaboration class, Daly created DESNOS: A Symphony Of Sin, a hybrid fashion performance piece melding fashion and dance based on the 1922 Nosferatu film. DESNOS will be performed on Saturday, May 24, at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm in VAPA Lester Martin Theater.
Japanese Language Students and Local Japanese Community Come Together for International Food DayThe scent of simmering curry and cooking rice filled the Student Center Kitchen at Bennington College on Saturday afternoon, May 3, as Bennington College students and members of the local Japanese community gathered to cook, connect, and celebrate International Food Day.
Animation at Bennington: Imagination and Experimentation The juniors and seniors in Sue Rees’s Animations Projects class have walked away with several valuable lessons this term. Stills from their projects are up in an exhibition in the Barn Annex through May 16.