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Patternmaking and Garment Construction —

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

Patternmaking: A Remote Class in Flat Pattern Development — DRA4420.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
This remote course will cover many of the basic practices of flat pattern development. Students will learn how to draft patterns and slopers, enlarge and alter historical patterns, and how to manipulate these patterns in order to create and complete assignments that cover a wide variety of garments. Topics covered will include bodices, sleeves, skirts, pants, collars, cuffs,
Dance Drama

Performance Production: Dancing at Lughnasa — DRA4214.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jenny rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is for students cast in a faculty-directed drama production, representing the hours of study both in and out of rehearsal necessary for an actor to build a successful performance in production. Rehearsals, techs, and performances constitute the student's commitment.
Drama

Performance Production: Daughters of Io — DRA4306.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits:
Greek Tragedy comes to Bennington as Collegiate Comedy! In the fall of 2015 Drama will present Daughters of Io, Quincy Longʹs adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women. In Long’s comic version of the classic Greek play, local milkmaids beset by bestial farm boys seek sanctuary on the campus of a progressive women’s college in rural 1930’s New England. Eight women play twenty
Drama

Performance Project: Pressing Face Against That Window — DAN2017.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 2
This performance project course is open to anyone who is interested in a text-based experimental performance, which may not fit in a frame of dance or theater in the traditional sense. Mina Nishimura will facilitate the creative process of making a new text-based performance, Pressing Face Against That Window [working title], written and directed by co-facilitator Kota
Dance Drama

Performing Collaborating with Advanced Design — DRA4397.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 2
Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration students, performers will be invited to join a design orientated devised performance. When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Class will be used as a space to explore design centric performative work. Students will keep a journal as
Dance Drama

Performing Walks — APA2166.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
This course invites students to create performance walks that draw on history, landscape, personal stories, and media. We will work together on finding source material, crafting narratives that move around or through campus, integrate naturally occurring design and/or the use of other elements such as projection or sound, and allow viewers to be with us in more than one place
CAPA Drama

Philosophies and Formal Elements of Animation and the Moving Image — MA4104.02) (canceled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
Zoetropes, phenakistascopes, pepper’s ghosts, puppets, VR, film, projection, games, music, dance, and animation are just a few examples of ways to explore the elements of movement in time-based media. In this course, we delve into the formal elements of the illusion of motion and apply these concepts to the creation of kinetic works in a variety of formats. Emphasis will be
Drama Visual Arts

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 2
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Plays From Plays From Plays — DRA2155.01; first seven weeks

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Where do plays come from? In this course we’ll look at the bloodline of plays: origination myths, tales, folklore, and, of course, other plays. We’ll read and discuss plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, Shakespeare, Buchner, Zola and their followers – Racine, Alfred Jarry, Sarah Kane, Neal Bell, Elizabeth Egloff, and others.
Drama Literature

Playwriting — DRA2260.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sarah Hammond
Credits: 4
"A human being is the best plot there is. " --John Galsworthy A beginning workshop in the fundamentals of playwriting, with exercises in such craft elements as structure, plot, dialogue, setting, gesture, and a special focus on inventing characters the audience can't forget. Assignments will include both written responses to readings and creative writing exercises that explore
Drama

Playwriting - Storytelling Across Media — DRA2184.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
What makes Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag a singularly perfect work of art that we can’t stop watching? How exactly does Beyonce’s cinematic album Lemonade capture and sustain our emotional attention, outside of her inherent god-like energy? How can I write a play that “feels” like that? In this introductory course, we will take a “study what you love” approach to playwriting.
Drama Literature

Playwriting as Civic Inquiry - The Supreme Court and the Corporate Person — DRA4408.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Over the past two centuries U.S. business corporations have gained civil rights originally intended for flesh-and-blood people. In this course we will work as a team of artist-investigators to (1) understand how this happened; (2) what some of the downstream consequences have been; (3) review ways artists and activists have tried to intervene with this development through
CAPA Drama

PLAYWRITING AS CIVIC INQUIRY: Chevron vs. Steven Donziger — DRA4026.01) (cancelled 12/1/2022

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
... the [Living Newspaper] seeks to dramatize a new struggle – the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world; to dramatize his struggle to turn the great natural and economic forces of our time toward a better life for more people.” — Hallie Flanagan, National Director of the Federal Theatre Project. This spring we will resurrect the
Advancement of Public Action Drama

Playwriting Workshop: Politics and Poetry — DRA4113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Credits: 4
For our workshop, I’d like us to think about plays as being a combination of things. Of poetry and plot, in form (or structure). Of the personal and the political, in content. I’d so appreciate us thinking about this together because I’ve been thinking about this alone for quite some time. As I’ve thought about it, I haven’t been considering “poetry” and “prose” and “personal”
Drama

Playwriting Workshop: Sense Memory — DRA2140.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jackie Sibblies Drury
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore methods for using our senses both to inspire our writing and to create plays that engage an audience's faculties and imagination. Through writing exercises tailored to creating text that is meant to be spoken and lived in, participants will create writing that is inspired by images, objects, music, and food that they share with the class. In this
Drama

Poetry Performance — LIT2533.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
Though poetry was an oral art form before it was anything else, its contemporary relationship to performance is varied and complex. What does it mean to write a poem that comes alive in the air? What happens to poems when they become embodied? And how have questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality historically shaped (and been shaped by) the work at the intersection of
Drama Literature

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Spring 2026
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

In this project-based class, students will undertake intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management. The course is designed for those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in

Dance Drama

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers developing and implementing scenic or lighting designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception through realization of their respective production projects. Particular attention will be placed on
Drama

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception
Dance Drama

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception
Dance Drama