BFA Dance Lab 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.
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.
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.
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.
Kingsley Ibeneche is a Nigerian-American Choreographer, Dancer, Musician, and published writer.
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.
Sara Procopio is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, educator, and arts manager.
Michael Sheridan is a Philadelphia-based artist, activist, 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.
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.