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Contact Improvisation: Tools for Life — DAN2356.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this course we will enliven both our individual and our partnering dance work, while learning the vocabulary that helps make Contact Improvisation an engaging non-verbal conversation. The ongoing learning process of Contact Improvisation involves developing skills related to weight sharing, jumping and rolling, sliding and gliding, finding a solo inside a duet, using the
Dance

Contained - Lidded Jars — CER4126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this ceramics class we will explore utilitarian and metaphorical concepts of containment through the making of lidded jars. These forms offer students the opportunity to solve the engineering problem of having two forms come together to make one while also presenting the wonderful challenge of making an interactive art object that requires the hand to engage with the piece
Visual Arts

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)
Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement.
Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. Registration: E-mail Dana Reitz on Nov 29 and include your experience; this will be
Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Dance

Contemporary African I/Burkina Faso — DAN2307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Rooted in Contemporary African dance; dancing over/under/inside and outside the tradition. This is a course in Souleymane Badolo's own movement style. We always begin class with a warm-up that involves both physical and mental preparation. We listen to internal rhythms and the beat of the music, learn about how to use the body in the space it occupies, and find ways of
Dance

Contemporary African II/Burkina Faso — DAN4307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Dance

Contemporary African Literature — LIT2564.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to the vital stories and voices of contemporary African literature. We will devote ourselves to closely reading novels, short stories, poems, and plays that explore modern African lives, both as they exist in relation to and imagine futures beyond the cruel legacies of genocide, apartheid, and (neo)colonialism. In the pages we read, you
Black Studies Literature

Contemporary African Movement Practices — DAN2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This course will engage students both physically and intellectually. The physical practice will be culled from traditional contemporary and popular dances from Burkina Faso (Louwaga, Wiré, Gurmantché, and Gurunsi), west and central Africa (N’dombolo), and urban Africa (such as Coupé-décalé), and western contemporary dance forms, including improvisation.  Students will
Dance

Contemporary African Writing — LIT2383.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 4
‘In your text, you treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving.’ —How to Write About Africa, Binyavanga Wainaina This class is an introductory survey of writing from Africa within the last few decades. The history of Africa has been captured in poetry, novels, plays, and
Literature

Contemporary Asian American Literature — LIT2373.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
This course provides an introduction to literature from 1990 to the present by Asian Pacific Islander American writers. This course does not comprise a historical survey of Asian American literature, which dates from the 19th century; instead, we will focus on recent Asian American writing, which has greatly expanded in both subject matter and modes of expression during the
Literature

Contemporary Ceramics Processes — CER2209.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: joshuaprimmer@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
Contemporary Ceramics Processes is a foundational overview of the techniques and materials common to a modern ceramics studio. Methodologies and medium explored will be (but not be limited to) wheel throwing, mold making and slip casting, slab building, extrusion, 3D printing, material science, electric and gas kiln firing, and mixed media. Each mode or material will be
Visual Arts

Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music — CHI4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music — CHI4322.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the ways in which contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a vocabulary
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today's native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4119.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today's native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is largely inaccessible to today’s native Chinese speakers, the poetry of the ten contemporary poets featured in this course is written in the vernacular, providing a rich source of authentic texts. This course integrates language learning with the study of poetry, focusing on poets ranging from the "Mist Poet" Gu Cheng to Feng
Cultural Studies and Languages