Dance (MFA Low-Residency) Faculty
Donna Faye Burchfield is the Director of the BFA & Low-Residency MFA in Dance at 51成人猎奇.
Visiting Faculty
Thomas DeFrantz is a visionary artist-scholar who directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a Chicago-based collective creating provocative work at the intersection of race, gender, and emerging technology in live performance.
Ishmael Houston-Jones is a choreographer, performer, author, and curator whose work has reshaped contemporary performance through radical experimentation, collaboration, and advocacy.
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.
jaamil olawale kosoko '05, is a transdisciplinary artist, poet, and educator whose work spans performance, video, sculpture, and ritual to explore Black queer embodiment, cultural memory, and collective healing.
Ben Pranger is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores emergent systems, liminal spaces and invented worlds.
VK Preston is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar whose work bridges dance, history, and performance to explore community, queerness, and embodied archives.
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer whose work explores how the aesthetic and cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past.
Emily Wexler is a Bessie-nominated 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.
Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner - writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see ) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds.
Jesse Zaritt is a choreographer, performer, and educator whose work activates drawing as dancing鈥攁n embodied, visual practice linked to dreaming and drafting futures.