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Image of Mark O'Maley
Former Faculty

An instigator of space, bodies, and ideas who wears his heart on his sleeve and the sky on his arm - while working in lighting design, scenic design, curation, and installation art - Mark O鈥橫aley is a Vermont based artist who has a fascination with how people use and inhabit space. He lights mostly dance.

Image of Tilly Grimes
Faculty

Tilly Grimes is an Irish/Greek theater, opera, and film designer based in New York.

Image of Richard MacPike
Instructor/Technician

Richard MacPike brings his experience working on Broadway shows such as The Lion King and companies like the Santa Fe Opera and Glimmerglass to his work as costume shop manager at Bennington.

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Alumni

Bessie award-winning dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Image of Mina Nishimura
Faculty

Mina Nishimura is a Tokyo-born dance artist whose works focus on ever-changing relationships between internal landscapes and external forms. Buddhism-influenced philosophies and butoh-based principles are reflected across her somatic, performance and choreographic practices. Nishimura is a 2019 recipient of Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.

Image of Pooh Kaye MFA 鈥04
Alumni

Choreographer and award-winning filmmaker whose works have been shown nationally and internationally

Image of Nicole Daunic
Visiting Faculty

Nicole Daunic '03 is a dancer, Performance Studies scholar and initiator of the post-anthropocentric performance project and collective research platform Another Audience

Image of Harry Sheppard
Alumni

Dancer and choreographer who worked with Andy De Groat, Bill T. Jones, David Gordon, and Wendy Perron and whose own choreography was presented at the Dance Theater Workshop and the 14th Street Dance Center in Manhattan

Image of Miguel Gutierrez
Former Faculty

Miguel Gutierrez is a Brooklyn based artist and educator working with dance, performance, text and sound. He performs and teaches all over the world. 

Image of Marie Lynn Haas
Alumni

Interdisciplinary improvisation artist and curator for Atland Residency and Artist Retreat in Western MA, where she collaborates with Tori Lawrence to develop digital and analog dance films that explore partnership with the natural world and the spaces that we create, inhabit, and neglect across the terrain. Co-founding director of Embrace Autism Singapore and an International Projects Coordinator for the Autism Treatment Center of America庐. 

Image of Aileen Passloff
Alumni

Former Chair of Dance at Bard College and choreographer and dancer at the Judson Dance Theatre

Image of Betty Ford
Alumni

First Lady of the United States and a pioneering advocate for addiction treatment

Image of Mariana Aun
Former Faculty

Mariana Aun is a multi-faceted arts professional, specializing in recording and facilities management within higher education, with accompanying interests in percussion performance, creative entrepreneurship, and community arts initiatives. 

Image of Sandra Burton
Alumni

Lipp Family Director of Dance and senior lecturer in dance at Williams College whose choreographic work has been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, the Judson Memorial Church, Theater 4/Negro Ensemble Company, Jacob鈥檚 Pillow Dance Festival, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, MASS MoCA, and venues in Nicaragua, Brazil, and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Image of Kumi Ishizawa
Instructor/Technician

Kumi Ishizawa is a sound engineer/designer. 

Image of Terry Creach
Former Faculty

Terry Creach directed Creach/Company, which tours throughout the United States and Europe, and his work as a choreographer was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.

Stuart Shugg
Former Faculty

Dancer and choreographer Stuart Shugg has been described by the New York Times as "lucid... with a scrupulous technique."

Photo of Michael Nordine
Alumni

Senior Writer and Editor at Optimism and previous Weekend Editor at IndieWire, whose work has also appeared in the LA TimesSalonVice, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Souleymane Badolo in a jean jacket in front of brick wall
Alumni

Choreographer, educator, and performer of traditional and contemporary dance. Keeper of his family鈥檚 traditional Gurunsi ways.

 

Image of Cathy Weis
Alumni

Bessie and Guggenheim award-winning dancer, choreographer, and videographer, and the artistic director of Cathy Weis Projects

Photograph 漏 Richard Termine

Image of Oguri
Former Faculty

Oguri is an internationally acclaimed dancer who has been described as a master at redirecting the way one sees and encounters the physical environment, his dance emphasizing the unpredictable. He produces full-evening solo and ensemble work, improvising and collaborating with musicians, sculptors, painters, poets, and literature.

Image of Ros Warby
Visiting Faculty

Ros Warby is an Australian/US dance artist, choreographer, and Alexander Technique Teacher. She is recognized for her unique solo performances, invoking characters that often transcend archetypes by sliding between iconic figures & ideas, allowing the body to embrace the complex experience of a human being at any given moment. Warby has collaborated/danced with Deborah Hay Dance Co. since 1998.

Image of Sara Rudner
Alumni

A former principal dancer at Twyla Tharp Dance, choreographer, and Guggenheim winner

Image of Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Alumni

Curator, producer, poet, choreographer, and performance artist whose works #negrophobia (nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award) and S茅ancers have toured throughout Europe, appearing in major festivals. Recipient of a NYFA fellowship.

Photograph 漏 Umi Akiyoshi

Image of Risa Jaroslow
Alumni

Dancer, choreographer, and founder of Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, who is dedicated to including diverse communities as participants and audiences, developing teaching techniques to engage dancers of all levels and people of all ages and abilities

 

Image of Elena Demyanenko
Faculty

Russian-born Elena Demyanenko is a dance artist, choreographer, improviser, dance filmmaker, and educator with over 30 years of national and international touring experience, including performances with the Stephen Petronio Company and the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Her current choreographic work probes 鈥渋mpossible鈥 scores/interferences to un-censor the body while examining the politics of attention, interconnectivity, and the recomposition of desire and its power.

Yanan Yu
Former Faculty

Dancer and choreographer Yanan Yu combines her experience in contemporary technique and Chinese traditional dance with interests in visual art, fine art, and mathematics.

Image of Myrna Packer
Alumni

Co-artistic director of Bridgman | Packer Dance and 2008 Guggenheim Award winner

Image of Jon Kinzel
Alumni

Choreographer and visual artist whose recent show at The Chocolate Factory, Someone Once Called Me a Sound Man (2013), was named a Best of 2013 by Artforum magazine

 

Image of Larissa Velez-Jackson
Former Faculty

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NYC-based choreographer, movement educator, the Artistic Director of LVJ Performance Co. and a multi-platform artist who blends dance, healing modalities, sound, humor, strategies of self-compassion and intergenerational community practice.