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Performance Project: Natural State of Error — DAN2125.01

Fall 2017
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
Dance

Performance Project: New Territory / Place — DAN4369.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this course we will create a new dance project together. The ensemble work will allow participants to engage in a rigorous approach to the practice of performing. Each performer is invited to bring what they know with them to the project, yet leave room for each to express a complex and indefinable range of experience through the humor, intelligence and emotional engagement
Dance

Performance Project: Not Knowing — DAN4108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jian Dai (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach Dana Reitz)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
I know I don’t know what I know or don’t know. I start with the passion to make something. I don’t know what it will be.  I like the process of learning and searching, understanding myself more as I work through it. Who am I? What do I want? What makes me interested? What can I make? Who are these people who work with me? Starting from scratch, without a particular image
Dance

Performance Project: Object as a Mirror — DAN4123.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this dance project, we will investigate how to apply the body as both tool and material. We will observe our responses to and projections upon multiple objects, combining our personal understandings with the generally held definitions of those objects. Our practice will be to deconstruct these findings and transfer them to physical actions. Then, these will be woven into a
Dance

Performance Project: Overly Engineered — DAN2133.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
I am interested in making dances that reveal the unique personalities of group members while they work towards achieving a particular goal. Through using improvisation and set material, we will work to accomplish simple tasks in an overly contrived fashion. As with the mechanisms found in a Rube Goldberg Machine, the multiple components will add up to a needlessly complex and
Dance

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

Performance Project: Sing-Gré — DAN4243.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Sing-Gré (meaning Root) will be based on Souleymane “Solo” Badolo’s current work, Yimbégré, made for Brooklyn Academy of Music. He will further explore an aspect of this major piece with students and make a new work with them. In the Mooré language, yimbégré means “beginning.” For the powerful dancer and choreographer Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and currently based in
Dance

Performance Project: The Dynamic Group — DAN4137.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Russell Stuart Lilie, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
How are groups identified, formed, reformed, sustained, absorbed, or disbanded? What is an individual's responsibility towards the group? How is individuality acknowledged within the group? How do individuals handle becoming inseparable from the group? In this project, we will investigate these questions though movement and discussion. We will work in groups, shifting
Dance

Performance Project: Triptych — DAN4672.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will assemble personal, intimate portraits and counter-narratives which then fracture and multiply through deliberate organization. Some of the emotions are familiar, some alien. Throughout the creative process, what is revealed is a dedication to observation and the search for the solutions in this improbable attempt to exist together. The
Dance

Performance Project: Why Dance Now? — DAN4141.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Throughout this creative process we will cultivate mindful embodiment as a radical political act. Rebecca Brooks will create a new performance work built on the premise that deep somatic engagement vastly affects us both individually and collectively. How can dancing prepare us to propagate change, to stay in action no matter what, to sharpen our awareness to our environment
Dance

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MET4103.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This course will explore the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a performative lens. Drawing on research in ethnomusicology, queer and gender studies, anthropology and Middle Eastern history, the course will examine performance (music, dance, theater, poetry and more) as a process of representation, assertion, and sometimes

Ethnomusicology Music History Society Culture and Thought Anthropology

Performance: Attention, Sensation, Perception — DAN2154.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eleanor Bauer
Credits: 1
Attention is the medium of performance. Performers conduct attention, both theirs and the audience’s. Through a series of embodied practices, we will work with qualities and directions of attention, and explore performance from the perspective of the senses. Seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard, touching and being touched, moving and being moved, we will investigate
Dance

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including
Dance (MFA)

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including
Dance (MFA)

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.01, section 1

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ben Pranger
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields,

Dance (MFA Low-Residency)

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.02, section 2

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ben Pranger
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields,

Dance (MFA Low-Residency)

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

Persona Poetry: An Overview — LIT2517.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 2
The mask, or persona, is a common construction in creative, focusing on building a personality in a work by manipulation of rhetorical strategies, sound, and perspective. Writers such as William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Ai, Kevin Young, Patricia Smith, Rita Dove, and many others have relied on their ability to create convincing characters in order to satirize, criticize,
Literature

Personal and Social Interaction — PSY2150.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erin johnston
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide an introduction to microsociology (also called social psychology) and various theories of interpersonal behavior. In general, the purpose of this course is to help you build an understanding of the relationship between the individual and society. Attention will focus on the dynamics of interpersonal interaction, small groups (such as couples, families
Social Science

Personal Arts Practice Portfolio (EXAT) — CME5009.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 0

In the student's final semester, students in the must upload their Personal Arts Practice Portfolio as part of the requirements for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling in Expressive Arts concentration. This portfolio will consist of documentation of the student's engagement with expressive arts over the course of their study within the program, including but not limited to

Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a Bennington College Plan Process. This Module will introduce Bennington
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Personal Narrative, The Photograph and Psychoanalysis — PHO4254.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Rachelle Mozman
Credits: 4
The course will explore making and using photographs, created or found, that develop our personal stories as a platform to address social, political or public dialogues. The unconscious mind is revealed through narrative and symbols. We will be thinking about our unconscious as housing memories that structure our stories and this relationship to imagery, collective memory and
Visual Arts

Persons, Groups, and Environments — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. In this course we'll examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction, that is, how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others, and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect social interaction. Attention will focus on
Social Science