The Hollins University innovative M.F.A. dance program provides students with a wide range of experiences and opportunities, mentorships, and exposure to others in the international dance field. The director of M.F.A. Dance, Professor and Chair, is Jeffery N. Bullock.

Beginning summer 2025, the program’s three weeks of international study and immersion took place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, curated by the European Summer Semester co-directors Boyan Manchev and Ani Vaseva, in collaboration with Jeffery Bullock.

The space for learning, reflecting and dancing was created by the directors, co-curators and professors Jeffery N. Bullock, Boyan Manchev and Ani Vaseva, the renowned international team of professors Adrian Heathfield, Kae Ishimoto, Sigal Zouk, Sergiu Matis, Laurie Young and the wonderful, engaged star-students Terese Cardamon, Destiney Daniels, Francesca Harman, Abby Owens, Quentin Sledge, Daintry TenNapel, Keith Wilson, Clarricia Golden, William Isaac, Hamilton Nieh, Shane Ohmer, Kayla Brown, Ashley Taylor Cesiro, Fabiola Sanchez Huidobro, Caley Vancil, Devin Baker, BreAnna Bellamy, Jalisa Johnson, Natasha Keckley, Laquangela Littleton, Katherine Nettles, Brianna Wilson, Catri Barba, Antonia Dougherty, Shadidja Parker and Noelani Schraedel.

Hollins M.F.A. Dance Summer Study Plovdiv 2025 was organized by Metheor, with the engaged assistance of the support team: Gina Kafedzhian, Katrin Metodieva, Leonid Yovchev, Stefan Donchev and Iva Zaharieva.

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For a second year in a row The European Summer Study Program of Hollins Dance MFA (Virginia, USA) is taking place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria between 8th and 26th July 2024, in collaboration with Metheor. Boyan Manchev and Ani Vaseva are co-curating the program, together with the MFA Hollins Dance director Jeffery Bullock. The program includes broad spectrum of highly professional tutors, among whom leading contemporary choreographers, theorists, critics and dramaturges such as Jonathan Burrows, Jeffery Bullock, Adrian Heathfield, Kae Ishimoto, Sigal Zouk, Laurie Young, Sergiu Matis, Thomas Greil, Nikolay Korchev, Boyan Manchev and Ani Vaseva. The visual artist Boryana Rossa participates in the program with a guest lecture, and Angel Simitchiev – with a music workshop.

"At Hollins, dance majors learn to think of dance as a dynamic form, full of possibilities for growth and innovation. Members of the dance community are encouraged to discover, refine, and celebrate who they are as artists. The program offers outstanding technique classes and an eclectic visiting-artist roster. Opportunities to perform and craft are abundant."

“We will be in great hands with Boyan and Ani. They are both amazing artists and radical thinkers.” Jeffery Bullock

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