Announcements and Upcoming Events

Find out all about "From Before" and Garth Fagan Dance on the FCD Repertory webpage with a video of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performing the work as well as a short documentary of the work featuring Garth Fagan's company. Neri Torres at Amherst College will be the rehearsal director. 

Hiroaki Umeda

Join Five College Dance and Smith College for a masterclass with Hiroaki Umeda's company on Tuesday, March 10, 10:00am, in the Crew House, Smith College. Free with registration through this form and open to the public.

Choreographer and multidisciplinary artist Hiroaki Umeda has been a leading figure in Japan’s avant-garde arts scene over the last two decades. Since the launch of his company S20, Umeda's subtle yet visceral dance theater works have toured worldwide to audience and critical acclaim. Dancing within a gorgeous digital stage environment, Umeda choreographs optical, tonal, sensorial, and spatiotemporal elements. Driven by his profound interest in time and space, Umeda’s singular artistic vision also includes composing, lighting design, scenography, and visual art. Umeda is part of our Next50 series, which looks to the future of the performing arts, because of his compelling vision and commitment to reinvention.

Please join us for a performance with Hiroaki Umeda at the FAC/FCT Performance Hall, UMass, on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:30pm. Please get your tickets through the FAC box office. 

Dance Lecture with Robert A. Rushing

Please join us on March 12 at 5:00 pm for a lecture by Robert A. Rushing (University of California, Los Angeles). Drawing on his recent book Transmedial Resonance: Calvino Across Media (Fordham University Press, 2025), Rushing explores how Ashwini Ramaswamy reimagines Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities through dance. The talk examines how Bharatanatyam, modern, and urban dance forms transform Calvino’s literary reflection on cities into an embodied exploration of migration and cultural exchange.

Coming up! Spring Break at the Five Colleges

Please remind your dance friends to sign up for the FCD E-Blast here and follow us at fivecollegedance.

Julia Antinozzi '18

Congratulations to Julia for making Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch List." See our Five College Dance Spotlight on Julia here. From the article: 

"Antinozzi graduated from Smith College in 2018 with a dance degree and an astronomy minor, and has been choreographing for her own dancers since 2022...Taken altogether, her works [The Suite and Third Variation both from 2024] illustrate a probing of her fascination with classical ballet filtered through a contemporary—and uniquely Antinozzi—lens, daring viewers to take a closer look."

Five College Dance was featured in Dance Magazine this fall in an article by Stav Ziv. The piece includes information about the FCD program, this year's guest artist repertory project, an excerpt of Lucinda Childs's Dance, and interviews with faculty and students. Download a PDF of the article to read below.