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Motion Capture: Interactivity — DRA4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Joshua Higgason
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space and its use in performance. Using Watchout, a multi-display production software, and utilizing various other tools such as live cameras, animations, motion sensing input devices, and real-world inputs, students will investigate the integration of
Drama Visual Arts

Movement Practice: A Spell for Utopia — DAN2140.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
Can Utopia be a practice instead of a destination? Is a new world possible if we learn to create our own language as an incantation for our new future bodies? During this course we will delve into the relationship of language and somatic states and how our embodied presence is directly related to how we perceive the  world. How we perceive the world is
Dance Drama

Mozart's Idomeneo — MVO4265.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
Gods, kings, princesses, sea serpents...at Bennington! This seven week class invites students to participate in a concert performance of Mozart's "choral opera" Idomeneo performed by the Bennington Choral Society with professional singers and orchestra. Students will learn the extensive choral sections and be considered for minor roles. The chorus will play different roles
Drama Music

Musical Theatre Writing - Book Lyrics — DRA4154.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sarah Hammond
Credits: 4
"Words can be graceful, but music is grace itself. Music is a blessing that enters the soul through the ear." -Tony Kushner, from the foreword to Caroline or Change How do we write words that sing? What drives a character to sing? How can a words-writer best use the constraints of the musical form to make a character come alive in the theater? In this creative writing course,
Drama Music

New Play Development - Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a
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New Play Development: Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a
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New Work/New Voices — DRA2306.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
This course is a dramatic literature course that will focus on new work by playwrights currently working today in the American Theatre. It is a class that is designed for actors, playwrights, directors, and designers who are interested in expanding their canon of contemporary dramatic literature, both published and unpublished, written by writers producing and generating work
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New Works Ensemble — DRA4279.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
In this highly rigorous performance production class- students will work on new material by contemporary playwrights working in the theatre today with a special focus this term on Bennington playwrights current and past. During the term, some of these writers may visit as guest artists, working with the students directly on material they have been exploring as an
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Off the Page: Conceptualization and Collaboration — DRA2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The collaborative process is central to the development of most theatrical work, yet it is often first experienced when people come together to work on a project with imminent production deadlines. Students in this course will have the opportunity to experience the initial portions of the collaborative process several times over, through a series of class projects, free of the
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Offstage — DRA4339.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

One secret to great playwriting is that what you put offstage is just as important as what you put on. In this class, we will explore a variety of offstage worlds: from realistic to fantastical, from richly detailed to deliciously sparse. We will think about how playwrights bring offstage environments to life through language—how a single

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Onstage Games: Danger and Revelation — DRA4371.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Three-Card Monte. Blind Man's Bluff. Poker. Charades. Chicken. What do onstage games reveal about our characters? Are onstage games always dangerous? How can the play itself become a game played with the audience? In this course, we will read plays in which characters play games onstage (The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, Topdog/Underdog by

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Otherness in Performance — DRA2218.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course examines dramatic texts and films that thematize “otherness” as a concern. How has “difference” served as a compelling way of delimiting the normative? What role does stereotype play? How do artists of color, gender, and other cultures respond to the dominant culture to create alternate identifications? We will consider plays, films, and works of art that feature
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Otherness in Performance — DRA2218.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 2
This course examines dramatic texts that thematize otherness as a concern. Why has difference served as a compelling way of defining the normative? What role does stereotype play? How do artists of color respond to the dominant culture and create alternate identifications? We will consider plays, films, and musicals that feature the representation of difference in gender, race,
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Out of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy — DRA4126.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
How do you design clothes for a world that that does not exist? In this class we will be doing that with a series of projects. Worlds may be extraterrestrial, riffs on human history in the manner of Game of Thrones, or purely an invention of the author. We will explore methodology to find inspiration in the worlds of art, science, costume history, and our own imaginations.
Drama

Out of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy — DRA4256.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
How do you design clothes for a world that that does not exist? In this class we will be doing that with a series of projects. Worlds may be extraterrestrial, riffs on human history in the manner of Game of Thrones, or purely an invention of the author. We will explore methodology to find inspiration in the worlds of art, science, costume history, and our own imaginations.
Dance Drama

Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion — DRA2223.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will examine the history of fashion, primarily in the western world, from ancient to modern. The class will be oriented towards the use of historic costume by costume designers. Students will explore art works illustrative of the period styles and the interpretation of those styles by designers, often in films. We will also contextualize clothing as a part of social
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Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion — DRA2223.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will examine the history of fashion, primarily but not exclusively in the western world. The class will be oriented towards the use of historic costume by costume designers. Students will explore art works illustrative of the period styles and the interpretation of those styles by designers. Corequisites: Dance or Drama lab assignment.
Drama

Painters and Fashion — DRA2261.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is a fashion history class inspired by the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We will be examining the works of various artists and how they were inspired by and influenced the world of fashionable dress. Some of the questions we may explore include: How did the artist alter the original garment? How did the artist’s work influence the
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Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Drama

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Drama

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research, or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of a final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Dance Drama

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research, or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of a final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.

 

Dance Drama

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Dance Drama