Announcements and Upcoming Events

Movement Workshop with Kyle Abraham's A.I.M.

Intermediate / Advanced Level. Registration link coming soon!

See performance below for more information about the company and Kyle Abraham.

A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham

Kyle Abraham is one of America's leading contemporary choreographers working in concert dance. In addition to choreographing for A.I.M., which he founded in 2006, Abraham has created commissioned works for such prestigious companies as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet, and The Royal Ballet. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013. He is a two-time Joyce Creative Residency Artist. And his awards include the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the Creative Capital Award, and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

A.I.M.’s mission is to create a body of dance-based work that is galvanized by Black culture and history and features the rich tapestry of Black and queer stories. A.I.M.’s work entwines a sensual and provocative vocabulary with a strong emphasis on music, text, video, and visual art. While grounded in choreographer Abraham’s artistic vision, A.I.M. draws inspiration from a multitude of sources and movement styles.

Tickets are $35-70 for the general public and $15-20 for Five College Students.

Five College Dance Fall Lecture 

More info coming soon!

Please see the cast lists on the audition info page.

Congratulations to everyone who came out to the audition, the dancing on Saturday was amazing all around.

Bill T. Jones's Spent Days Out Yonder (2000)

Spent Days Out Yonder (2000), set to the andante second movement of Mozart's String Quartet in F major (K. 590), evolved from one of Bill T. Jones's solo improvisations that was recorded during a time when Bill was working with postmodern choreographer Trisha Brown. His improvisation was recreated by then rehearsal director Janet Wong (now associate artistic director) and later made into a full company work. (Here is a solo version of the work, and here is a group version.) The intricate and detailed movement and musicality marries Trisha's release technique strategies with Bill's Africanist sensibilities of rhythm, sensuality, and spinal articulation/undulation. Bill, in recalling the improvisation, says he listened to Mozart as though he was listening to James Brown. This work offers students an opportunity to embody amalgamated movement lineages and styles through the choreography of a postmodern artist, while simultaneously developing deeper understandings of ways to hear and feel classical music in their dancing bodies. 

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.