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Low-Residency MFA in Dance Program
Beginning during the summer term in Montpellier, France, the low-residency program is designed for mid-career artists, teachers, and dance professionals with a strong interest in expanding their knowledge and experience in an uninterrupted way. The summer term dates in France are June 16–July 28, 2025.
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Critical and Experimental Formations of Study
The program is focused on rethinking inherited practices of dance education and considers the very idea of study differently. It extends spaces for learning and engagement from studios and classrooms to international festival environments, community centers, museums, and online learning platforms.
The format allows flexibility and provides opportunities for working professional artists to broaden and expand their career trajectories and to sustain their lives in the arts. The program is anchored by prominent scholars, artists, and creative thinkers who foster critical conversations about the meanings, purposes, pedagogies, and potentialities of dance and performance.
What is the program?
The curriculum, built within an experimental and mobile architecture, relies heavily on a collaborative, international interdisciplinary network of individuals committed to deep engagement and expansive relationships.
The program has two cohort models. A full-time cohort model, where students study continuously for four terms (summer, fall, spring, and summer) and a flex-cohort model for students who need more flexibility and enroll in six or seven terms. The summer term dates in France are June 16–July 28, 2025.
Students complete a total of 60 credits for the degree.
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Connect with your own faculty team
Immersed in these dynamic relationships created by members of this community from around the world, students develop practices, pedagogies, and research models that value experimentation and continuously question the role of dance within and beyond traditional environments. Using symposia, retreats, and residency frameworks as ways to gather and learn, this program aims to foster new communities and networks of exchange for knowledge production and artistic practices.
Faculty, mentors, affiliated artists, and guest lecturers represent an intentionally diverse array of approaches to theorizing and practicing embodied knowledge in relation to citizenship and art-making.
Faculty Spotlight
Our faculty of renowned professional choreographers and dancers, dedicated to contemporary practices, seek out guest artists and seasoned graduate fellows who propel the art forward.
Elena Demyanenko
Elena Demyanenko is a Russian/American dance artist, choreographer, improviser, maker of dance films, and educator who lives and works between New York City, Vermont, and Moscow, Russia. Demyanenko has extensive professional performance and choreographic experience in a multicultural context from 30 years of touring around the world and is a former member of Stephen Petronio Company and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Michael Giannitti
Michael Giannitti has extensive professional experience as a lighting designer and educator. He has designed lighting at many of the most prestigious venues around the country and has taught abroad as a two-time Fulbright Specialist Grant recipient.
Levi Gonzalez
Dance artist Levi Gonzalez’s work employs a queer corporeal logic to resist narrow definitions of knowledge and experience.
Photo credit: Alex Escalante
Tilly Grimes
Tilly Grimes is an Irish/Greek theater, opera, and film designer based in New York whose awards include The Balsamo Grant for Emerging Immigrant Artists, The Irish Arts Design Award, Irish Times Theatre Award Nomination, The Onstage Critics Award, as well as multiple Lucille Lortels and Drama Desk nominations.
Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye
Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye (Kaolack) was born and raised in Senegal by his grandmother. As a dancer/choreographer, his work is entirely focused on pushing boundaries off space and time, liveness, and fully being in the spaces we inhabit and claim as our own, while making space for spirit to be present.
Mina Nishimura
Mina Nishimura is a Tokyo-born dance artist whose works focus on ever-changing relationships between internal landscapes and external forms. Buddhism-influenced philosophies and butoh-based principles are reflected across her somatic, performance and choreographic practices. Nishimura is a 2019 recipient of Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.
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