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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns along with techniques associated with rhythms from these regions. Performances will be presented at music workshop, as well as with Bennington’s
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns along with techniques associated with rhythms from these regions. Performances are presented at music workshop, music festival, Southwestern Vermont
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these regions, students will learn to play traditional and hybrid rhythms. There will be discussions and scheduled response papers on readings, podcast, and films pertaining to global issues from these regions, as well as an
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will learn basic hand and stick drumming patterns and techniques associated with traditional rhythms from these regions. In the second half of the term the class will present the music they have learned
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to learning rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using percussion instruments from these regions; students will experience basic hand and stick techniques while learning to recognize drumming patterns associated with these traditional rhythms. The rhythms of Lamban, KuKu, Zaouli, Samba,
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories’ students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional topics cover history, culture, language, and dance. This class
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01, section 1

Spring 2026
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, songs, and musical practices from Africa and the African Diaspora, including Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Students will learn these traditional folkloric rhythms using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories and provinces. Class discussions will convey history, culture,

Black Studies Instrumental Study

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.02, section 2

Spring 2026
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, songs, and musical practices from Africa and the African Diaspora, including Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Students will learn these traditional folkloric rhythms using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories and provinces. Class discussions will convey history, culture,

Black Studies Instrumental Study

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01, section 1

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional topics will cover history, culture, language, and dance. This
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.02, section 2

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and
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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will learn to play traditional and hybrid rhythms. There will be discussions and scheduled response papers on readings, podcast, and films pertaining to global issues from these territories, as
CAPA Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns along with techniques associated with rhythms from these regions. Performances will be presented at music workshop, as well as with Bennington's
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Drums, Gongs and Bamboo — MPF2252.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo is an introduction to Southeast and South Asian Percussion. The ensemble will offer an overview and opportunity to listen to, learn and play percussion music from several countries in these regions. This ensemble will listen to and learn and adapt traditional music from countries such as Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India,
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Drums, Gongs and Bamboo — MPF2252.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo is an introduction to Southeast and South Asian Percussion. This workshop will offer an overview and opportunity to listen to, learn and play percussion music from several countries in these regions. This ensemble will listen to, learn and adapt traditional music from countries such as Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India,
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Drums, Gongs and Bamboo Percussion Ensemble — MPF2252.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 4
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo is an introduction to Southeast and South Asian Percussion. This workshop will offer an overview and opportunity to listen,learn and play percussion music from several countries in these regions. This ensemble will listen to and learn and adapt traditional music from countries such as Philippines, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Iran. Open to all
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Duets: Making and Moving — DAN4368.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This course invites students to create duets using a number of compositional tools and improvisational and performance strategies. Dancers working together will inspire each other based on their relationship. As material reveals itself, moment to moment, consider that the dancers will be “teaching” each other as they work. This premise will allow us to learn from one another.
Dance

Dybbuks, Golems, Tradition Resistance: Isaaac Basheveis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley — LIT2071.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
In this course, we’ll read fictions by read three major Jewish writers of the last and present century: I.B. Singer (1902-1991), the first Yiddish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) and Grace Paley (1922-2007). Old World shtetls and the streets of Warsaw; Broadway, the Bronx, and Greenwich Village are settings rife with dybbuks, ghosts, and
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Dying in Diaspora — SCT4108.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
This class examines geographies of death, dying, and mourning as experienced by migrants living in diaspora or exile. In it, we will map out the multiple mobilities of grief and death—the circulation of emotions, cadavers, toxins and cancers, and mourning relatives gathering to grieve—and the political, and imperial, factors that co-produce death and mobility—such as the U.S.
Society Culture and Thought

Dynamic Anatomy — DAN2359.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Martin Lanz
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This course creates a space for the study of anatomy and its application to movement techniques. Centered in the bone structure, psoas, and breathing exercises, this work examines different sections of the skeleton such as the pelvis, legs, spine, and shoulder girdle. We will also address the psoas muscle as the pillar(s) of the body

Dance

Dynamic Anatomy — DAN2359.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
This course creates a space for the study of anatomy and its application to movement techniques. This work examines different sections of the skeleton such as the pelvis, legs, spine, and shoulder girdle. We will also address the psoas muscle as the pillar(s) of the body connecting our lower and upper halves. This work aims to release the joints and increase the space within.
Dance

Dynamic Spiraling: Grasping Nature’s Patterns to Generate Vital, Fluid Movement — DAN2414.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
We can find incredibly fluid movement by exploring nature’s phenomena - structuring through spiraling and shaping the environment. In this course we will explore spiraling, sinking in and growing out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate
Dance

Early American Confessions — LIT2251.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
From the Puritans’ first unpromising glimpse aboard the Mayflower of this “hideous desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men,” America has inspired, even required, bold new feats of language and the imagination to capture it in literature. This course will explore the beginnings of the American literary tradition and its roots in Puritan 'confession,' from the
Literature

Early American Literature — LIT2197.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the Puritans' first unpromising glimpse aboard the Mayflower of this "hideous & desolate wilderness, full of wild beats and wild men," America has inspired, even required, bold new feats of language and the imagination to capture it in literature. This course will survey the beginnings of the American literary tradition, from the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and the
Literature