Dance - The UMF Dancers

The Dance program at UMF also boasts a traveling performance group known as the UMF Dancers. The UMF Dancers is a post-modern, improvisational dance company committed to creating classes, dances, performances and lecture demonstrations around tehems of race, social class and gender. Their work explores the integration of the body, mind, and spirit.  Their aim is to create a community of dancers where tolerance of divergent points of view and affection exist.

The UMF Dancers are proud to be celebrating their 25th year as a modern dance company. We are located on the campus of The University of Maine at Farmington which has been named the top public comprehensive college in the Northeast for 8 years in a row by the US News and World Report. Although this year we are focusing on the contact improvisation form of dance in the past the company has studied the work of Rudolph Laban, African Dance, Dance and Text, Choreography, and has for the last 10 years been studying modern dance from a somatics point of view. Through the company we also have been able to study Dance History and have amassed an impressive video library through
the Mantor Library.

The company's home for twenty-five years has been Dearborn Gymnasium. In 1989 a small choreographic studio was added in Dakin Residence Hall. Our Roscoe Floor and sound system have served us well over the years.

Photo © Fred Dearnley