Dance (BFA) Faculty
Donna Faye Burchfield is the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance at Bennington College.
Visiting Faculty
Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a dancer, choreographer, and educator.
Mark Caserta is a queer dance maker from Philly, where they direct the movement collective BIGKID DANCE.
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.
Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a Philadelphia-based performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, writer, and mama.
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.
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.
Paul Matteson MFA '07 is a BESSIE Award performer and former member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
Michael Sheridan is a Philadelphia-based artist, activist, and educator.
kira shiina (they/she) is a freelance dance artist, sound practitioner, and educator.
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.
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.
Emily Wexler is a Brooklyn-based 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.
Jesse Zaritt's work engages drawing as dancing - a visual and physical practice linked to dreaming, drafting, and materializing futures. He is a Brooklyn-based dance artist.