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Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Instructor: Kyle Clark
Days & Time: See course description for days/times
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Instructor: Juel Lane
Days & Time: See course description for days/times
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Instructor: Kayla Farrish
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 3

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have

Performance Production: Dancing at Lughnasa — DRA4214.01

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.

Performance Production: Daughters of Io — DRA4306.01

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

Performance Project : Ephemeral Archive — DAN4138.01

Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
We will collectively generate a new work; each person will play an integral role in the development of the project.  We will amass a large kind of historical archive from which we choose how to stage the work.  Using the voice and text,  we will push into rigorous physicality, exploring range and nuance. We will perform this in a concert at the end of the term.

Performance Project: A New Collective Work — DAN4136.01

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will begin with a series of improvisations to help investigate and develop movements for individuals and the group as a whole. During this process, we will be building together a simple set for our performance space. This collective work, formed from new pathways of thinking together, will result in a piece for performance by the end of the term.

Performance Project: Activating the Ambiguous Zone — DAN4222.01

Instructor: Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
There’s a ‘place’ where the front of the body meets the back of the body– the inner meets the outer–fabric becomes clothing and clothing becomes a movement score for the body–an object transforms from a tool in motion to a puppet in motion–flesh becomes cardboard and cardboard becomes flesh–light turns into dark and dark to light. We will call these places–these in-between

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01; section 1

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
With new movement material crafted by both the instructor and the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made, exploring the qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing.   The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal structural concerns and liquid interpretation. The new

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
With new movement material crafted around the movement tendencies of each of the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made. Throughout the term, we will be exploring movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing. We will investigate the interrelationship of movement and environment, and will use costume as an essential

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.02; section 2

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
With new movement material crafted by both the instructor and the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made, exploring the qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing.   The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal structural concerns and liquid interpretation. The new

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
With new movement material crafted around the movement tendencies of each of the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made. Throughout the term, we will be exploring the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing. The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal

Performance Project: BRUJX — DAN4362.01

Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
In this course we will make a dance, directed by achugar, and perform it at the end of the semester. It is for students with a deep awareness of their bodies in movement and with prior experience performing onstage and being part of a creative dance process, that are interested in being challenged as performers with a rigorous rehearsal process. This work will further explore

Performance Project: Cultivating Resilience: A Score for Movement & Light — DAN4377.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

Resilience deals with not only the expected but also the unexpected.  During this period of time, Dana Reitz will create a new dance work with the entire group, in sections and as a whole, that will rise from the participants. During class and outside of class, everyone will be involved in creating individual movement material and delving

Performance Project: Dancing Chavela Vargas — DAN4365.01) (cancelled 9/30/2024

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
Chavela Vargas has often been called “la voz de México”. An iconoclastic figure, a publicly queer woman singing rancheras and comporting with radical artists and activists, her life is a study in refusing to submit to social norms and embracing the power of art as an act of solidarity, resistance and love. In this course, students will participate in a rehearsal process that

Performance Project: Exchange — DAN4126.01

Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we’ll work with close encounters and with the physical puzzles that result. We’ll work individually and collectively to generate movement materials that build toward small group patterns that mix, combine, and sometimes clash. For those interested in challenging their athleticism, movement invention and negotiating skills. The new work will be

Performance Project: Hanou — DAN4122.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Hanou, from the language of Gurunsi, means “myself.”  This piece will be built upon the individual stories of the participants who will contribute not only fragments of their own histories but also spatial scenarios. The collected scenarios will form the base of the larger structure that will weave them into an interconnected fabric of movement, sound and space.  The

Performance Project: Liminality Portal; Dancing Within and Beyond the Frame — DAN4421.01

Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
In this creative process lab, we will be developing dance and site responsive movement scores to be performed live and in relation to video. During the first seven weeks, we will be cultivating/creating these scores based on rigorous somatic investigation and dance practice, both within the studio and within specific predetermined locations. Throughout this process, students

Performance Project: Living Sculpture — DAN4237.01

Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will be investigating how to build content and how to look at dance as a living sculpture. Multiple locations will be chosen for multiple new sculptures. We will use the architectural elements of a space to inform the building of our content. Each “living structure” will be made in only a few weeks and made only to exist in that specific location

Performance Project: Natural State of Error — DAN2125.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and