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In this seminar, we will train our eyes on all six of Jane Austen’s novels — Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma — with an aim to discover what connects and binds Jane Austen’s heroines together, what separates these women from each other, and to explore Austen’s evolution as a writer through the
Our country is changing rapidly—can a play help us make sense of where we are (gulp), and where we’re headed? In this course, we will read ambitious, formally inventive plays written within the last fifty years that attempt to capture some fundamental truth about the United States: its violence and despair as well its beauty and possibility. Readings will likely include Tony
This class will examine interesting thinkers about our future. Artists, anthropologists, afro futurists, writers, scientists and philosophers have all thought about what we are facing in our futures. Books and essays such as “The Fourth Turning” by Neil Howe, “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber, “The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama,
This course examines the history of immigration to the United States. How did this country become a “nation of immigrants”? How did immigration become so central to American national identity? What are this country’s purported ideals on the subject and has it ever lived up to them?
This class is an extension of the Black Music Division at Bennington College that brought dancers and musicians together for live performance in the composition of Improvisation. It is co-taught by Susan Sgorbati and Michael Wimberly.
Musicians and Dancers will study and practice together a Solo Practice and an Ensemble Practice, building compositional
