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Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop--creatively and flexibly--essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio: Parts I (the verbal) Part II (the visual) — DAN4150.01 (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
This is for advanced students (juniors and seniors) of the performing arts and visual arts disciplines who wish to find the language, both verbally and visually, that is reflective of their true creative processes, helps clarify and further their own investigations, and is readily available to present to others. Finding a public language for what is the private process of
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Basic Audio Technology for Drama/Dance Productions — MSR2212.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 1
With a focus on Q Lab software and basic computer concepts, students will run audio/video from a computer through A/V distribution (mixing board, video switcher) and out into a theater space. The basics of wiring audio gear and how to think about sound will be covered. Having a Mac Laptop is a plus, but there will be a lab computer available.
Dance Drama Music

Basic Design Techniques of Theatrical Sound — DRA2245.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Leon Rothenberg
Credits: 1
Over four intensive sessions we will discuss the creative process of designing sound for plays and will look at the hardware and software tools used to express these designs. In the first two classes students will be introduced to the recording, editing and mixing techniques used in preparing music and sounds for theatrical productions. In the second weekend we will look at
Dance Drama Music

Beat by Beat — DRA4122.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be
Drama

Beat by Beat — DRA2122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays drawn from a contemporary and classic canon of dramatic literature.  Students will  be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and study of given playwrights and their
Drama

Beat By Beat Script Interpretation: Pulitzer Version — DRA2388.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 4

Students in this class will read a weekly selection of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is an in-depth script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure, arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights

Drama Literature

Beat By Beat Script Interpretation: Pulitzer Version — DRA4192.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Students in this class will read a weekly selection of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is an in-depth script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure, arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights

Drama Literature

Beat by Beat: Script Interpretation for Theatre Makers and Their Friends — DRA4254.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be explored in
Drama

Beckett (19x19) — MA4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will use a variety of texts of Samuel Beckett as the basis for the class. These will include the short stories, plays and radio plays.  We will watch a selection of the Beckett on Film (19 films x 19 directors) series produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney.  The series includes a number of interpretations for the plays from the directors. This approach
Drama Visual Arts

Beginning Playwriting: One-Act Structures — DRA2146.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john walch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Emerson said: "In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed." The same is true in this course as beginning playwrights will read and write a number of one-act plays in multiple styles and genres. There will be numerous writing exercises that focus on writing short plays and monologues. The exercises will focus on specific issues of craft, form, or genre. Playwrights will
Drama

Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance — DRA4182.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course will be part of an international festival of short plays commemorating Belarusian Freedom Day, 25 March, the unofficial holiday invoked to express opposition to the current regime (referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe). The eight plays, four Belarusian and four international, explore human rights issues and promote social action. We will rehearse and stage
CAPA Drama

Bennington Plays — DRA4151.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for directors and actors engaged in the process and techniques of analyzing, exploring, and staging (original) works of theater. “Teams” of Director Cast work in collaboration with corresponding courses for student playwrights and designers whose work has been chosen for participation in the Bennington Plays Festival. Directors will be chosen
Drama

Bennington Plays: Design — DRA4129.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers developing and implementing scenic, lighting, or costume designs for productions of new student written plays. Teams of directors and designers will work with other students in corresponding courses for playwrights, directors and actors, who are participating in the Bennington Plays Festival. In a laboratory atmosphere, we will
Drama

Bennington Plays: Playwrights — DRA4163.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for playwrights engaged in the process and techniques of rewriting and staging their plays. The majority of rewrites may happen prior to the semester, but substantial rewrites could emerge as essential during the production period. Collaborating with the director, actors, and designers will be the heart of this class. Playwrights are expected to
Drama

Bennington Plays: Process to Performance — DRA4265.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course is a master class for young directors and playwrights to learn the process and techniques of analyzing, exploring, and staging (original) works of theater. Different “teams” of writer/director or director/dramaturge work on a piece of their choosing, with the running time falling somewhere between 20 – 50 minutes. In a laboratory atmosphere we will investigate how
Drama

Bertolt Brecht — LIT2341.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course will explore Brecht’s development of epic theater dramaturgy, at the intersection of his synthetic genius and collective inspirations. Students will learn about Brecht’s development of such techniques as Verfremdungseffekt (distancing effect), historification, gestus, and separation of the elements, while exploring his radical adaptations of
Drama Literature

Broadway Musicals and the American Dream — DRA2268.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course offers a chronological survey of American musical theater history, through a thematic focus on the Broadway musical’s circulations of the “American Dream.” The course examines not only changing notions of the American Dream from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, but considers contrasting definitions of the myth, as articulated through
Drama

Butoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 4
This advanced level intensive butoh course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and eastern philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While studying particular
Dance Drama

Camera and the Body: Peculiar Ways of Knowing — DAN2208.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course delves into the interdisciplinary art of screendance, examining the mediatization of the moving body within cinematic and site-specific contexts. By exploring the dynamic collaboration between camera, body, and environment, students will study a range of methods used by film and video artists—both historical and contemporary

Dance Drama