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The National Endowment for the Arts has honored the Kathryn Posin Dance Company (lead by Posin '65) with a $10,000 Art Works award.
The American Dance Festival this summer celebrates its 40th year of bringing global modern dance to Durham, North Carolina. But the roots of the festival, and of modern dance itself, will always be be tied to Bennington.
The third floor of Commons was the crossroads of intellectual and cultural life of the 20th century: where Helen Frankenthaler '49 and Paul Feeley painted, where Martha Graham danced, where Bob Dylan sang, and where Gunnar Schonbeck made his instruments. Now, it fully reopens for the first time since the 80's and the last time before a complete renovation of the building for a visual and performative arts show.
Dancer and choreographer Melinda Ring MFA '01 has been awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Liz Lerman '69 is the 2017 winner of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Award and was also honored with an American Dance Festival's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Visiting faculty member Souleymane Badolo received a 2016 Bessie Award yesterday for Outstanding Production for his piece Yimbégré.
Antony Shipman ‘17 and faculty member in philosophy Karen Gover will present a panel at the symposium “Engagement: Philosophy and Dance” at Texas State University in San Marcos on September 8-10.
Choreography by Amalia Wiatr-Lewis '16
Performance by Amalia Wiatr-Lewis '16 and Samuel Wentz MFA '16
Choreography by Emma Villavecchia
Performance by Emma Villavecchia and Ben Broderick Phillips
I am interested in the way that we use multiple identities everyday and how that influences our movement choices and the way that we present ourselves. —Chloë Engel '17
Choreographer Hope Clark ’87 will serve on the 2016-17 Tony Awards nominating committee.
Melinda Buckwalter MFAD '02 was awarded a Fulbright as part of their Student Program. The scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate "rigor in scholarly enquiry and academic or professional excellence." Through Fulbright, she will be pursuing a Master's Degree in Dance Anthropology from the University of Roehampton in London.
Brooks Ashmanskas ’91stars in the adaptation of the 1921 hit musical and 2016New York Times critics’ pick, “Shuffle Along,” which also stars six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. Ben Brantley singles out Ashmanskas’ performance in his New York Times review.
Dance faculty member Elena Demyanenko performed her latest work, "Blue Room," as a part of the #DigitalDanceFestival at New York Live Arts on February 25 and 28. Music faculty member Nick Brooke is the composer, and MFA fellow Dai Jian also collaborated on the piece.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced its 2016 grant recipients. Among the winners are Barbara Bloom ’72 for her work in the visual arts, and Melinda Ring MFA ’01 for her dance and performance work. Former faculty member in dance Nora Chipaumire, who taught at Bennington in 2009, also received an award.
Rokenri, an avant-rock trio, including alumni Ethan Woods ’12, and Trevor Wilson ’09, will present "Tube on the Way Under," at Lincoln Center on Dec. 17th. Dancer Lydia Chrisman ’12, will perform, as well.
In a new project at the Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, artists, dancers, curators, students, and thinkers from China and the U.S. are turning the process of collaboration into a form of art. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 1:00 to 5:00 pm; admission is free.
Road to Paradise, a dance and theatre piece written and choreographed by Carson Efird ‘05, was restaged at the 10th annual Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival and featured Bahar Barharloo ‘14, Rory Cullen ‘15, and several students and faculty.
Faculty member Susan Sgorbati has published a book with Emily Climer ’12 and Marie Lynn Haas ’12 on Emergent Improvisation: Where Dance Meets Science on Spontaneous Composition.
Choreographer Liz Lerman ’69 (below, center) was one of 50 artists this year to receive a $50,000 fellowship from United States Artists (USA).
Bennington College this summer became the first American school to participate in the European Schools Festival at the National Center of Contemporary Dance in France.
Dance faculty member and professional mediator Susan Sgorbati has been awarded a six-week Creative Research residency at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
Choreographer and performer Susan Rethorst '74 is one of five artists to receive the 2010 Alpert Award in the Arts, a $75,000 prize to support her ongoing work in contemporary dance.
A real-time video performance by alumni Madeline Best '08 and Brian Rogers '95 was "radical in that word's primary sense," raved New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.
Dance faculty member Dana Reitz and dancer/choreographer Sara Rudner MFA '99 garnered rave reviews for their recent reprisal of their 1994 show Necessary Weather at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York.
"Be enthusiastic about your work, but always stay humble," filmmaker Mitchell Lichtenstein '78 told a room full of Bennington students as part of the "Beyond Bennington" speaker series, which invites alumni to campus to discuss their careers with current students.
The Bennington College community mourns the loss of friend and pioneering dance choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died on Sunday, July 26, at the age of 90 years old.
The Yard, an artists' colony for choreographers on Martha's Vineyard, kicked off its 2009 season on Friday, June 26, with a weekend event dedicated to its late founder Patricia N. Nanon '44.