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.

Mariana Valencia Artist Talk

Bessie Award winner and Hampshire alum Mariana Valencia explores her process of  making dance that hinges on themes of repetition and revival. Making new work is not merely a process of producing new material; it is often a reanimation of the past or an improvisation of what has already been rendered in previous work. 

Smith College Senior Dance Concert

This year's dance concert features new works by Sadie Arundale, Addie Bowan, Audrey Garfinkel, Dahlia Riddington, and Isa Skare. 

Performance+Architecture, Smith Art and Architecture Symposium

This symposium sets out to explore relations between performance and architecture—performing architecture, performance as architecture, and architecture as performance—to see how they affect our understanding, imagination, and habitation of physical and discursive space. 

Friday, April 10, 2026 at 5 p.m.
Presentation by Jane Sawyer, Founder and Director, Cook County Arts Collective, Reception to follow.

Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 10:30-4:30 p.m.
Presentations by:

• Ross Elfline, Art and Art History, Carleton College
• Claire Grace, Art History, Wesleyan University
• Andrea Moore, Music, Smith College
• Mechtild Widrich, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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.