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Five college dance department: turns 25.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1086 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Five college dance department: turns 25.(Teach-Learn Connection: Take 5)

Article Excerpt
NE MORNING last fall at Smith College's Scott Gym, 20 students dressed in all manner of shredded T-shirt-dancer-chic were engrossed in an intermediate modern dance class led by Mark Allan Davis. A former member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Broadway cast of The Lion King, Davis started the class with Pilates and yoga stretches, then moved to the barre for a series of ballet-inspired exercises. He finished 90 minutes later in allegro leaps across the floor. Musician Mike Vargas added drums to his piano accompaniment, as well as a xylophone and bells wound around his ankles.

While this class could have taken place at any college, this particular group of students gathered from a unique quintet of schools that form the Five College Dance Department, a consortium of dance departments from Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Because of the schools' proximity in western Massachusetts, students can cross-register for dance...

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