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Martha Graham Dance Company Returns to Bennington College for Centennial Celebration

This spring, the Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC) will revisit Bennington College for the first time in decades, offering a residency, conversation, and performance of Graham classics and new works in celebration of the company’s 100th anniversary.  Dance students from the college’s BA and BFA programs are set to perform Panorama, Graham’s groundbreaking call to […]

How Bennington College Saved University of the Arts’ Dance Programs After the School’s Sudden Closure

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 […]