Travel Packages

Want to take a dance class on another campus? Here are some class groupings suggested by the Five College Dance faculty.

Connections, choreography by Tatiana Desardouin, Passion Fruit Dance, Fall 2022, photo by Derek Fowles

Travel Packages Spring 2025

Here you will find curated blocks of courses to consider when traveling to another campus.
For a full list of dance courses, see the FCD homepage. 

 

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Amherst College

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY

  • Embodied Storytelling with Angelica Monteiro at 2:00 PM
  • Intro to Waacking/Punking with Angelica Monteiro at 4:00 PM
  • Intro to Contact Improvisation with Gabrielle Revlock at 4:00 PM

TUESDAY & THURSDAY

  • Creative Process with Ron Bashford at 9:00-10:50 AM
  • Intermediate / Advanced Ballet with Kate Martel at 10:00 AM
  • Solo Performance with Wendy Woodson at 11:30 AM
  • Experiments Across Media with Wendy Woodson at 2:00 PM
  • Beg/Int Contemporary Technique with Angelica Monteiro at 4:00 PM
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Hampshire College

TUESDAY & THURSDAY

  • Embodied Facilitation and Pedagogy with Lailye Weidman at 10:30 (Th to 12:50 PM)
  • Contemporary Dance Technique (Beg/Int) with Gabby Carmichael at 5:00 PM
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Mount Holyoke College

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY

  • Dancing and Drumming with Michael Ofori at 10:00 AM
  • Intro to Breakin’ with Andres Ramirez at 11:30 AM
     
  • Intro to Afro Cuban with Neri Torres at 1:45 PM
  • Cuban Social Dances with Neri Torres at 3:15 PM
     
  • Applied Somatics with Barbie Diewald at 1:30 PM
  • Advanced Modern with Chloe London at 3:15 PM
     
  • Advanced Ballet with Barbie Diewald at 10:00 AM
  • Intermediate Composition with Mustapha Braimah at 11:30 AM

TUESDAY & THURSDAY

  • Queer and Feminist Performance with Meredith Bove at 9:00 AM
  • Int. West African Dance with Mustapha Braimah at 10:30 AM
     
  • Afrobeats with Mustapha Braimah at 1:45 PM
  • Beginning Modern Dance with Caitlin Canty at 3:15 PM
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Smith College

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY

  • Dance Anthropology: Performed Identities and Embodied Cultures with Lester Tome at 9:25 AM
  • Intermediate Contact Improvisation with Sarah Young at 10:50 AM
  • Bollywood with Chavi Bansal at 10:50 AM
  • Elementary Composition with Chris Aiken at 1:40/1:10 PM
  • Intermediate Ballet with Rodger Blum at 3:05/2:45 PM

TUESDAY & THURSDAY

  • Analysis of Music with Jake Meginsky at 9:25 AM
  • Advanced Contemporary with Frankie Baron at 10:50 AM
  • Intermediate Afro Modern with Neri Torres at 1:10 PM
  • Movement, Ecology, and Performance with Aiken & Hauser at 1:10 PM
  • Advanced Ballet with Rodger Blum at 5:00 PM
  • Pointe at 7:00PM
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UMass Amherst

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY

  • Dance Education 2 with Ann Biddle at 9:05 AM
  • Ballet 4  with Tom Vacanti at 11:15 AM
  • Dance in the 20th Century with Ann Biddle at 12:20 PM
  • Ballet 2 with Tom Vacanti at 2:30 PM

TUESDAY & THURSDAY

  • Composition 1 with Duane Lee Holland at 11:30 PM
  • Music from a Dancer’s Perspective with Jesse Olsen Bay at 2:30 PM
  • Modern 4 with Duane Lee Holland at 4:00 PM