A Serendipitous Continuation
Dance Magazine highlighted the 36 BFA students, 20 continuing low-residency MFA students, and 13 faculty members from University of the Arts who have merged into Bennington College.
Reports Dance Magazine:
"On a Friday afternoon on the last day of May, Donna Faye Burchfield was sitting on her deck in Philadelphia when a newspaper notification popped up on her friend’s phone: University of the Arts, where Burchfield had been dean of the School of Dance since 2010, was closing its doors in a week—for good. Were Burchfield and her colleagues given any warning? 'Of course not,' she says with a laugh, still incredulous months after the fact. 'And we had 31 students scheduled to leave for France in less than two weeks for the low-residency MFA program.'”