Announcements and Upcoming Events

Calling all FCD & Community dancers, past and present, please offer your gratitude for Hampshire Dance. We will include them in the FCD E-Blast and website. 

Movement, Ecology & Performance

Show up anytime, walk, sit, watch, and wander! The Movement, Ecology & Performance class explores the grounds around Paradise Pond at Smith. 

Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company Masterclass

Join Five College Dance and Amherst College for a masterclass with a member of the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company on Wednesday, April 29, 4:05-5:20pm, Studio 1, Amherst College. Intermediate level. Free with registration through the link below and open to the public. 

The company performs Friday, May 1, 8:00 pm at Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall, UMass Amherst. Get tickets for the performance here. 

Spring Grad Event

Each spring, to celebrate the end of the semester, the Smith MFA candidates show their new works for the semester. This semester see work by Michael Figueroa, Lauren Horn, and Lindsey Jones. 

Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company Performance

From the moment of its founding in 1983, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has been about creating works that challenge ideas. About what dance is and what it represents. About what performers look like and what they bring to the stage and the form. About what the themes and subjects of a dance performance can be. Committed to asking hard questions and tearing down walls, the company has established itself as the most innovative force in contemporary dance.

UMass Junior Choreography Projects, Cascade

You are invited! 16 UMass Dance majors in the junior class present their choreography projects.

AGOO! at Mount Holyoke College

AGOO! returns this spring in a vibrant evening of music, movement and communal celebration. The night features traditional and popular street forms performed by students and faculty from Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Consortium. The performances highlight the inseparable bond between drumming, singing, dancing and their attendant visual elements as well as the everlasting link between continental African idioms and diasporic innovations in music and dance. Join us as we celebrate the potency of music, dance and community.

UMass AWOOGA! Dance and Drag Extravaganza

Come to AWOOGA! dressed in club kid attire at the Totman Gym for local art vendors, drinks, dance, and drag! 

Please make reservations below, pay at the door (sliding scale $5-15). No one is turned away for lack of funds. All ticket sales will be donated to LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts.

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.