Upcoming Events
Wednesday, February 12, 12:20pm at Totman Gym, UMass Amherst
Masterclass with the Limón Company
See information about the Limón Company below. This will be an intermediate level class. Free and open to the public. Please register.
Thursday, February 13, 7:30pm UMass FAC
Limón Dance Company
José Limón has a special place in American culture for a social awareness that transcended distinct groups in order to address the ways in which we all search for commonality. And it’s in that spirit that the company continues to commission works by critically acclaimed and emerging international voices fifty years after its founder’s passing. Limón’s works continue to influence the evolution of the art form with their arresting visual clarity, theatricality, and rhythmic and musical life.
The program for this performance will include choreographer Olivier Tarpaga’s Only One Will Rise. There will be a post-show question-and-answer session with Artistic Director Dante Puleio.
Friday & Saturday, February 14 & 15, 7:30pm, Totman Gym UMass Amherst
Moonlight
A collaboration of music and dance inspired by the short stories of Italo Calvino and featuring the UMass Music & Dance Faculty
$25 General; $15 Senior. Free for students with ID. For reservations 413-545-2511.
Thursday to Saturday, February 13-15, Main Studio, Hampshire College
Winter Dance Concert
Muscle Memory, a student-directed performance by Samara "Mère" Ternoir and Ava Jett-Beachley!
Muscle Memory seeks to answer the question, what does it mean to exist in/as a human body? Through dance, storytelling, visuals, and interactive elements, Samara "Mère" Ternoir and Ava Jett-Beachley explore the many complexities of human existence through a futuristic, sci-fi lens. Muscle Memory is a social experiment blooming with emotion, joy, contemplation, intellect, and fun.
Muscle Memory is a student-directed performance supported by the Hampshire College Dance Program, Five College Dance, and Five Colleges, Inc. Please join us on Thursday and Friday, February 14th and 15th at 7:30pm at Hampshire College's Music and Dance Building. Doors will open at 7:00pm.
Suggested donation of $5-$15 for tickets, free tickets available if needed.
Saturday, February 22, 1:00-6:00pm, Scott Dance Studio, Smith College
Mini Bates Dance Festival at Smith College
Masterclass by Shane Larson of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Co., and Jenna Riegel and sha harrell, former BTJ/AZ Co. members, offer a Spent Days Out Yonder (2000) masterclass. Q&A with Natalie Gotter-Fulton of BDF to follow.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday to Saturday, February 27-March 1, Totman Gym, UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst Senior Thesis Concert
More info coming soon!
Announcements
Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch List
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 featured in Dance Magazine
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.