Fall 2025 Faculty Dance Concert: Under & Intuit
A collaboration of UMass and Amherst College faculty choreographers: Lauren Cox, Michele Byrd-McPhee, Angelica Monteiro & Jenna Riegal, plus a restaging of Katherine Dunham's Progressions
The Amherst College/UMass Amherst Fall Faculty Dance Concert is a new tradition of the joining of our two departments to perform and celebrate both new and historic works choreographed by our faculty and guest artists. This fall, four faculty members from Amherst College and UMass created original dances: Michele Byrd-McPhee, Lauren Cox, Angelica Monteiro, and Jenna Riegel. They have the special honor of presenting a restaging by Saroya Corbett of Katherine Dunham's exposition of the fundamentals of Dunham Technique, Progressions in Dunham Technique.
2024-25 Past Dance Events
Faculty Dance Concert: Moonlight
Fri, Feb. 14, 2025, Totman Performance Lab
A Music & Dance Collaboration with composer Salvatore Macchia, and choreographers Tom Vacanti (pictured) & Molly Fletcher Lynch-Clark.
Inspired by short stories of Italo Calvino
Featuring the Da Capo Chamber Players, with Eduardo Leandro, conductor
UMass and Five College dancers perform works choreographed by Vacanti and Lynch-Clark.
Tickets available in January, 2025, online or at the Box Office (413-545-2511).
$25 general; $15 seniors; students free.
Thurs/Fri/Sat, Feb. 27, 28 & Mar. 1, 2025 @ 7:30pm, Totman Performance Lab, $10/Students free
Senior Thesis Dance Concerts
Other Past Dance Events from 2024
Sat/Sun, February 17 & 18, 2-day intensive, Totman Gym & Studio (202/204)
Highlighting the legacy, lineage, and pedagogy of Jazz Dance as told by Black Female scholarship. Students will deepen their study of the many Africanist foundations within the form, and experience how its tutelage benefits a career in dance. We bring master teacher Sheila Barker, who studied under notable Jazz practitioners, Dianne McIntyre, Thelma Hill and Frank Hatchett.
Open to Five College Dance students and anyone who has significant dance training. (Dance Team and dance groups are welcome!)
Thurs/Fri/Sat, February 22, 23, 24 @ 7:30pm, Totman Performance Lab, $25/15/5, UMass students free
Featuring choreography by Tom Vacanti and Molly Fletcher Lynch-Clark
Fri/Sat. May 3 & 4 @ 8:00pm, Totman Performance Lab, $10/Students free
Junior dance majors present their choreography projects
Tickets at 413-545-2511, at the door or ONLINE