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Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Groove, Body, Flow State — MFN2155.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Chris Rose
Credits: 2
When we lose our bodies in space, how do we retrace our steps? How does the body move in response to a constantly changing environment? Can we use music to communicate or even initiate a true, embodied experience?  To all three, Swiss pianist and composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) thought it was impossible not to. As a professor at the Geneva Conservatory,
Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Groove, Gesture, and Embodied Knowing — MFN2114.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Chris Rose
Credits: 2
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) saw all music as a metaphor for the body experiencing itself. We don’t just hear music: we feel it, and the Swiss-born composer and teacher invented a whole coursework to musically explore our sixth sense, proprioception. In Eurhythmics, (greek for ‘good flow’) we'll play with embodiment as the origin of dynamic, felt experience, designing
Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Music and Motion — MFN2215.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Chris Rose
Credits: 2
Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a music class where we practice sensing the body through sound. What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? How does music help you know and express yourself? Can music help you understand someone else? Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) saw all music as a metaphor for the body experiencing itself. We don’t just hear music
Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Music of the Body, Mind, and Spirit — MFN2121.01) (cancelled 11/27/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Chris Rose
Credits: 2
What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? The musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) invented Eurhythmics to explore this question. Self-awareness, self-expression, and musical knowing are all seated in the body, the fundamental constant of all experience. So how do we honor that truth in our learning? We notice and name discrete events,
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Dalcroze Eurhythmics: The Body Indispensable — MFN2118.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Chris Rose
Credits: 2
What if everything you want to understand about music is already within you, innate, instinctive, indelible? When Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) first taught harmony to students at the Geneva Conservatory in the 1890s, he found a disconnect between their aural perception and physical coordination, and devised a coursework to re-unite the two. He called it Eurhythmics,
Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Time, Space, Energy — MFN2174.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
We performers, makers, and listeners think of sound as music’s medium, but we don’t just hear music: we feel it. We will play with embodiment and as the origin of dynamic, felt experience and with proprioception as the bridge connecting our innate musical understanding to the abstract language of musical sound. Students’ weekly homework--listening, conducting, and following
Music

Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 1
The goal of this class is to develop and extend both solo and ensemble improvisational practices.  Working toward the performance of improvisation, we will determine appropriate settings and situations to extend our research outside the classroom. We’ll research the roots of improvisation in performance starting with the Judson Dance Theater, and look at the cultural
Dance

Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
Credits: 2
For students with extensive experience with dance improvisation. Our practice will involve developing scores by the participants using both solo and ensemble forms. Students may then show their work-on-progress in Workshops and/or in public performances.
Dance

Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
***TIME CHANGE*** The goal of this class is to develop and extend both solo and ensemble improvisational practices.  Working toward the performance of improvisation, we will determine appropriate settings and situations to extend our research outside the classroom. We’ll research the roots of improvisation in performance starting with the Judson Dance Theater, and look
Dance

Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance — DAN2354.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied practice and cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher—recognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and
Dance

Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance — DAN2354.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher—recognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and selecting
Dance

Dance Intensive: Embodiment, Technique, Improvisation, Performance — DAN2016.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to dance studies at Bennington College. It is intended for students new to Bennington who have a serious interest in dance, as well as those with a desire to deeply explore movement and embodied practice as an artistic form, whether or not you have previous dance experience. Through a broad range of cultural and artistic perspectives, we
Dance

Dance Intensive: Embodiment, Techniques, Improvisation, Performance — DAN2206.01

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

This course serves as an introduction to dance studies at Bennington College. It is intended for students new to Bennington who have a serious interest in dance, as well as those with a desire to deeply explore movement and embodied practice as an artistic form. Through a broad range of perspectives, we will encounter many

Dance

Dance Intensive: Imagination/Sensation/Space — DAN2150.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 4
This beginning level course is for any students interested and/or curious about the dance-making process, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will first work to connect with physical sensations and develop physical awareness as well as physical skills and facility.  We will work to unearth movement ideas and particular images.  We will develop solo
Dance

Dance Making: The Ephemeral Artifact — DAN2137.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course is an introduction to the creative process of dance making. We will look at choreography as a format for arranging bodies and movement; considering time, space, and emotion in performance based work. We will explore, improvise, watch, and discuss our work and the work of others.  We will develop personal movement material from multiple sources and investigate
Dance

Dance Now/Africa — APA2157.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
A great deal of what we know of Non-Western dance makers is through written critiques, reviews, and social media. Contemporary dance artists in West and East Africa are essentially unknown in the United States. Dance as an art form is situated in a context of politics, history and the environment. In this course, we will look at, not only the critiques and reviews, but also the
CAPA

Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
For students of all disciplines, this course will include weekly screenings of dance on film. We will be looking at a wide variety of dance, from The Ballets Russes to early Modern Dance at Bennington to Postmodern Dance, nationally and internationally, and try on some of this movement ourselves. We will also utilize the library collection of dance films from cultures around
Dance

Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
Dance performance exists in time and space. How does our experience change when we see dance mediated by the videographer or the choreographer through a camera lens? In this course we have two simultaneous tasks: (1) to perceive and understand the point of view of the videographer/choreographer as we watch dances made for camera as well as documentary films, and 2) understand
Dance

Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: terry creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of all disciplines, this course will include weekly screenings of dance on film. We will be looking at a wide variety of dance, from The Ballets Russes to early Modern Dance at Bennington to Postmodern Dance, nationally and internationally. We will also utilize the library collection of dance films from cultures around the world, to examine the diverse styles and
Dance

Dance on Film to TikTok Culture: Framing the Rendered Body — DAN2353.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko and guest video-artist Tori Lawrence will utilize camera/iPhone exercises, selected film screenings (to understand a range of perspectives), and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities with the goal of creating collaborative dance and camera
Dance Visual Arts

Dance Performance Project: "Further Afield" — DAN4205.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Credits: 2
For this performance project, Roberts will be making and teaching movement material, and experimenting with solo, duet, and group forms. The dancers will play an integral part in the shaping of dynamics and phrasing of the piece, working throughout to develop their performance of set material. Coaching will focus on individual musicality and phrasing, 'group timing,' and
Dance

Dance Performance Project: "Here, There, and Where" — DAN4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
Credits: 2
This performance project examines contradicting or opposing movement qualities, such as stillness/activity and fluidity/awkwardness, in both pedestrian and technical movements. Using delicate images to heighten perception, we will explore the sense of time and space as experienced internally (i.e. with memories) as well as the sense of time and space experienced externally.
Dance