Since 2009, the Bard Dance Program has hosted an in-residence dance company bringing their technique and composition to the academic program in the form of teaching, educational licensing projects, master classes, full-Company production residencies, and public performances.
Villa Albertine
Bard College Dance Program Launches Two-Year Partnership with Villa Albertine
Beginning in fall 2023, the Bard College Dance Program is launching a two-year partnership with Villa Albertine, a cultural institution that supports exchanges in arts and ideas between the United States, France, and beyond. Each semester, artists selected by Tara Lorenzen, director of Bard’s Dance Program, and Nicole Birmann Bloom, Villa Albertine’s program officer for the performing arts, in collaboration with Centre National de la Danse (CN D, Pantin, France) and other French choreographic centers, will teach technique and repertory courses in Bard’s Dance curriculum.
Past Partnerships
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2020–2023
The Bard College Dance Program and GIBNEY, a New York City–based dance and social justice organization led by Founder, Artistic Director, and CEO Gina Gibney, began a new partnership in the fall of 2020. The Bard Dance Program/Gibney Partnership provides unique opportunities for Bard students to work closely with Gibney’s resident dance troupe. This is the fourth professional partnership launched by the Dance Program, which began in 2009 with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. -
2018–2019
Beginning in fall 2018, the Bard Dance Program embarked on a partnership with the American Dance Festival (ADF). Through coursework, artist residencies, performance opportunities, and public dialogs, students encountered a range of well-respected artists who put research and inquiry at the center of their professional practices. ADF’s critical lens for 2018 was to examine how two influential roots of modern dance—the African diaspora and Western European dance traditions—operate within contemporary practice. -
2009–2015
Beginning in fall 2009, the Bard Dance Program embarked on a partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to offer new classes in technique, creative structure, and critical analysis. After BTJ/AZ’s merger with Dance Theater Workshop, renamed New York Live Arts, the partnership expanded considerably. Regular offerings included technique (two levels, offered four days a week), repertory, composition, junior seminar in professional practice, and Senior Project oversight and advising.
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2015–2018
Trisha Brown Dance Company engaged in an extensive, two-year residency that included teaching, educational licensing projects, master classes, full-company production residencies, and public performances to cultivate a curriculum that embodied the artistic practice of its founding artistic director, Trisha Brown. Courses included dance technique and composition, ultimately incorporating interdisciplinary studies with other forms including music and the visual arts. Each year, students learned repertory for public performance. -
Past Partnership FacultyVilla Albertine
Noémie De Almeida Ferreira S25
Yuval Pick S25
Wanjiru Kamuyu F24
Georgey Souchette F24
Walter Dundervill S24
DD Dorvillier S24
Marcella Santander F23
Volmir Cordeiro F23
Gibney Company
Hannah Garner S23
Amy Miller F22
Dedrick Gray F22
Amy Miller S22
Amy Miller F21
Elisa Clark F21
Alanna Morris-Van Tassel S21
Cameron McKinney S21
Maleek Washington F20
American Dance Festival
Ivy Baldwin S20
EmmaGrace Skove-Epes S20
Nia Love F19
Quilan Arnold S19
Beth Gill S19
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Tara Lorenzen F16
Leah Morrison S16
Cori Olinghouse F15
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Leah Cox F14
Leah Cox F13
Stuart Singer F12
Leah Cox F11
Leah Cox F10
