Low-Residency MFA in Dance Faculty

Visiting Faculty

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Visiting Faculty

Thomas DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a Chicago-based group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. 

email thomasdefrantz@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Shayla-Vie Jenkins is a Philadelphia-based performer, maker, educator, poetry lover, writer, and mama.

email shaylaviejenkins@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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.

email nialljones@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Paul Matteson MFA '07 is a BESSIE Award performer and former member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. 

email paulmatteson1@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

Ben Pranger is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores emergent systems, liminal spaces and invented worlds.

email benjaminpranger@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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.

email emilywexler1@bennington.edu
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Visiting Faculty

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.

email jessezaritt@bennington.edu