She received her PhD in Culture and Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has organized and presented at conferences nationally and internationally, and her publications appear in Forumes Modernes Theater and The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Bench currently serves on the editorial board of the Screendance Journal, which aims to foster sustained intellectual discourse around dance created for screen media. Her research interests include histories and theories of corporeality, bodily articulations with digital media, and critical theories of dance and performance. Her current projects include mobile and social media as sites for choreographic investigation and analysis, the impact of communications technologies on movement and gestural patterns, and the possibilities for site-specific performance in everyday technologized spaces.