He has created dances for the Pennsylvania Dance Theater, Danceworks Performance Company (Milwaukee), Circle of Dance (NY), and other regional dance companies. He has been an artist in residence at the Joyce Theater Foundation, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Celebrate Brooklyn festival, and Dance Theater Workshop. He is the recipient of many grants, commissions, and residencies, including awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the National Performance Network, and the National Dance Project. In 2007 he choreographed dance sequences for the play A Beautiful Child, which premiered at the NYC Fringe Festival.
He has been a guest artist/teacher at a number of colleges and universities including Stephens College, Rutgers University, Lafayette College, Juniata College, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, University of California Santa Cruz, Bates College, Wayne State University, and Indiana University. Some memorable master classes include the ones he taught at the Jacob's Pillow School, the Univeristy of South Florida, the Milwaukee Ballet, Montclair State University, Winona State University, the South Carolina Dance Alliance, and the High School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati). His work has been performed by college students on several ACDFA programs.Ben was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance at Hofstra University for one semester and on the faculty at the Florida Dance Festival. He recently taught Dance History and Criticism at Adelphi University. Ben graduated from New York City's Stuyvesant High School and from Oberlin College with a major in English and a minor in Dance. He has a masters degree in Teaching Dance in Higher Education from NYU's Steinhardt School of Education. He is currently part-time faculty at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, where he teaches Choreography 2, Performance and Digital Technology, Repertory, and Seeing Performance.
He lives in New York City and Sheffield, Massachusetts, with his fiancé, dancer/choreographer Ian Spencer Bell. Also, Ben likes cats.