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Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01
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.
Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01
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.
Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01
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.
Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01
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.
Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01
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.
Patternmaking and Garment Construction —
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.
Patternmaking: A Remote Class in Flat Pattern Development — DRA4420.01
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,
Performance Production: Dancing at Lughnasa — DRA4214.01
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.
Performance Production: Daughters of Io — DRA4306.01
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
Performance Project: Pressing Face Against That Window — DAN2017.01
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
Performing Collaborating with Advanced Design — DRA4397.02
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
Performing Walks — APA2166.02
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
Philosophies and Formal Elements of Animation and the Moving Image — MA4104.02) (canceled
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
Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.03
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
Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01
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
Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01
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
Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.02
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
Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01
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
Plays About Plays — DRA4435.01
In this advanced class, we will read and write plays about plays (or in which a play or performance is essential to the plot). Readings will likely include Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Seagull, Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present, Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 and Mr. Burns, Alice
Plays From Plays From Plays — DRA2155.01; first seven weeks
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.
Playwriting — DRA2260.01
"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
Playwriting - Storytelling Across Media — DRA2184.01
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.
Playwriting as Civic Inquiry - The Supreme Court and the Corporate Person — DRA4408.01
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
PLAYWRITING AS CIVIC INQUIRY: Chevron vs. Steven Donziger — DRA4026.01) (cancelled 12/1/2022
... 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