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Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance — DAN2354.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied practice and cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher—recognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and
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Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance — DAN2354.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher—recognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and selecting
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Dance Intensive: Embodiment, Technique, Improvisation, Performance — DAN2016.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to dance studies at Bennington College. It is intended for students new to Bennington who have a serious interest in dance, as well as those with a desire to deeply explore movement and embodied practice as an artistic form, whether or not you have previous dance experience. Through a broad range of cultural and artistic perspectives, we
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Dance Intensive: Embodiment, Techniques, Improvisation, Performance — DAN2206.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course serves as an introduction to dance studies at Bennington College. It is intended for students new to Bennington who have a serious interest in dance, as well as those with a desire to deeply explore movement and embodied practice as an artistic form. Through a broad range of perspectives, we will encounter many

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Dance Intensive: Imagination/Sensation/Space — DAN2150.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 4
This beginning level course is for any students interested and/or curious about the dance-making process, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will first work to connect with physical sensations and develop physical awareness as well as physical skills and facility.  We will work to unearth movement ideas and particular images.  We will develop solo
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Dance Making: The Ephemeral Artifact — DAN2137.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is an introduction to the creative process of dance making. We will look at choreography as a format for arranging bodies and movement; considering time, space, and emotion in performance based work. We will explore, improvise, watch, and discuss our work and the work of others.  We will develop personal movement material from multiple sources and investigate
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Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: terry creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of all disciplines, this course will include weekly screenings of dance on film. We will be looking at a wide variety of dance, from The Ballets Russes to early Modern Dance at Bennington to Postmodern Dance, nationally and internationally. We will also utilize the library collection of dance films from cultures around the world, to examine the diverse styles and
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Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
For students of all disciplines, this course will include weekly screenings of dance on film. We will be looking at a wide variety of dance, from The Ballets Russes to early Modern Dance at Bennington to Postmodern Dance, nationally and internationally, and try on some of this movement ourselves. We will also utilize the library collection of dance films from cultures around
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Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
Dance performance exists in time and space. How does our experience change when we see dance mediated by the videographer or the choreographer through a camera lens? In this course we have two simultaneous tasks: (1) to perceive and understand the point of view of the videographer/choreographer as we watch dances made for camera as well as documentary films, and 2) understand
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Dance on Film to TikTok Culture: Framing the Rendered Body — DAN2353.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko and guest video-artist Tori Lawrence will utilize camera/iPhone exercises, selected film screenings (to understand a range of perspectives), and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities with the goal of creating collaborative dance and camera
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Dance Performance Project: "Further Afield" — DAN4205.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Credits: 2
For this performance project, Roberts will be making and teaching movement material, and experimenting with solo, duet, and group forms. The dancers will play an integral part in the shaping of dynamics and phrasing of the piece, working throughout to develop their performance of set material. Coaching will focus on individual musicality and phrasing, 'group timing,' and
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Dance Performance Project: "Here, There, and Where" — DAN4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
Credits: 2
This performance project examines contradicting or opposing movement qualities, such as stillness/activity and fluidity/awkwardness, in both pedestrian and technical movements. Using delicate images to heighten perception, we will explore the sense of time and space as experienced internally (i.e. with memories) as well as the sense of time and space experienced externally.
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Dance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time — DAN2355.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects. Throughout the course, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange
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Dance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time — DAN4686.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In weekly sessions, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange conversations, poems, ideas, songs, drawings and inspirations. In addition, movement practices will be introduced in each weekly session in order to activate and facilitate the body
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Dance Workshop — DAN2001.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
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Dance Workshop — DAN2000.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
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Dance Workshop — DAN2000.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
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Dance Workshop Extension — DAN2000.01) (cancelled 7/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
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Dance Workshop Extension — DAN2000.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
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Dance Workshop-Extension — DAN2000.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at Bennington College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
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Dancer as Maker — DAN4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Dancers working presently in the contemporary, experimental dance world do so in relation to the historical definitions of “the dancer,” all while deconstructing and recontextualizing its meaning. Dancers are makers in their own right inside choreographic structures. In this course, we will work with specific choreographic structures and scores, and use them as a frame to help
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Dancing Drumming — DAN2134.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
This class is aimed to instruct dancers on the Art of Drumming , and drummers on the Art of Dancing. The drummers are in conversation with the dancers and the dancers in conversation with the drummers; they learn from each other. In Africa, to become a dancer you had to learn to be a drummer; if you are a drummer you had to learn to move. Movement and sound are connected to the
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Dancing Through the Sentient Archive — DAN2203.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This is a multi-modal course that examines how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. It is open to any student who wishes to explore the complex ways in which histories form around discourses of the body, culture, aesthetic philosophy, and power. Specifically, we will examine the theoretical proposals embedded in the history of

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