Announcements and Upcoming Events

Take a Dance Class on another Campus

Travel Packages are curated blocks of courses paired by the faculty to consider for study on another campus. Find all the options on the Travel Package webpage.

Smith Tap Ensemble Masterclass with Jess Gersony

Jess Gersony will lead a one hour masterclass hosted by Smith Tap Ensemble. The class will be at an intermediate level, but all are welcome! Currently a professor in the Biology department at Smith, Jess has been a member of professional tap dance companies in NYC and Boston. She has also taught tap to hundreds of students in the greater Philadelphia area. (mentored by Darrell Williams, who is a protégé of LaVaughn Robinson).

instagram: @smith_tap

Smith Open Contemporary Technique Class

All FCD students at the intermediate level or above are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Other Dance Events at the  Smith Arts Day on Saturday April 18 include,

Celebrations Dance Company Showcase

April 18, 12:00, 1:00, & 2:00 pm, at Berenson Cook Studio (B3), Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College

Smith Tap Ensemble Open Class

April 18, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, at Berenson Leeds Studio, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College

Essence Showcase: Murals + Movements

April 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, at John M. Greene Hall, Smith College

Essence Showcase: Murals + Movements

Join us for the fourth annual Essence showcase: Murals + Movements, presented by Black Rhythms in collaboration with the Black Students’ Alliance, the Smith African and Caribbean Students Association, and the Pan-African Students Association. This year, we want to highlight the visual and performing arts from Black artists that have influenced how we move today. There will be vocal and dance performances, spoken word, a fashion showcase, and more.

Mount Holyoke Student Dance Concert: coalescence

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance proudly presents the annual Student Dance Concert: coalescence. This student-led concert is an expression of a semester of embodied inquiry in the Composition II course and marks the beginning of many students’ choreographic journeys. Each student is encouraged to find their choreographic voice through collaborative study, experimentation, and production. This concert features works by Beatrix Airhart, Molly Armbrust, Abby Chan, Wilsie Ferris, Clara Gill, Anjali Hith, Marina Jacobs, Ryanne McCann, Natasha Nagarajan, Daisy Ober, Charlie Penna, Lili Sanford, and Julia Steinberg.

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

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. 

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.