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Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians Dancers — DAN4357.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati; Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, physical contact and interaction, and the exploration of forms and structures. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and
Dance

Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers — MPF4233.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced-level course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the moment. Musicians should have basic skills on their instrument and be able create and convey a sense of form to other musicians in
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Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers — MPF4233.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, physical contact and interaction, and the exploration of forms and structures. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while
Dance Music

Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers — DAN4357.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, physical contact and interaction, and the exploration of forms and structures. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while
Dance Music

Improvisation Ensemble with Focus on Electronics — MCO2001.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class will be a hands-on improvisation workshop. Students will be asked to bring in both acoustic and electronic instruments, and we will develop strategies and techniques to integrate and combine them. We will play improvisation exercises in solos, duos, and trios as well as interpret text and graphic scores. We will listen and look at examples of compositions and music
Music

Improvisation for a Catastrophe: Complexity and Resilience — APA2351.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class will examine the principles of complex systems, improvisation and resilience. Concepts such as self-organization, emergence, pattern recognition, adaptation and non-linear structures will be introduced. Ordinarily, we think of order and form as externally imposed, composed or directed. In this class, however, we will consider new kinds of order, not because they are
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Improvisation Lessons — MIN2243.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This class will focus on weekly instruction in improvisation through differing styles and feels. Explore and develop skills in chord analysis, rhythm and expression through your instrument. We will also touch on the deep history of improvisation. Weekly assignments will focus on growing improvisation skills and expanding ones knowledge of what improvisation can be. Individual
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Improvisation, Indeterminacy and Art Intervention — APA2141.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores art intervention in cities and rural environments that utilize methods of improvisation and indeterminacy to address social and environmental issues.  The class will examine the relationships and dialogue between traditional and contemporary practices of problem solving in communities. The class will work on collaborating on the design and
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Improvisation, Play and Persistence — SCMA4107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman and Katie Montovan
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
When we first come into this world, we are endlessly curious about everything, without the self-consciousness we acquire later in life. When we get to school, many of us are told that there is a single right way to answer questions, whether about a poem or the material world. We are discouraged from trying different approaches and all too often we learn that “failing” to get
Science and Mathematics

Improvisation: Methods and Practice — APA2160.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course examines improvisation as a transcultural practice. Improvisation is an important tool in human agency as well as fundamental to many creative practices. The class will study how human beings respond, adapt and communicate in their environment with the use and practice of improvisation. Field Component: Students will assist in documenting and archiving interviews on
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Improvisation: Somatic Nuance — DAN2143.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This is a class for those curious about their bodies’ potential for spontaneous, nuanced movement. We will begin with a slow warmup, emphasizing our natural desire to move. We will use varied improvisational structures or scores to create frames for attention. By gaining awareness in our bodies, we will improve our ability to move easily and articulately. We will explore
Dance

Improvisation: Survival, Adaptation, Invention — DAN2175.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this semester-long laboratory on improvisation, we will place ourselves attentively into particular environments and situations in order to access and develop the skills of individual and ensemble physical problem solving. Pattern recognition will be one lens through which we will view the role of perception in real time decision-making. Ultimately, our choices will activate
Dance

In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy’s geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America, and, lately, from Syria. Some of Italy’s Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
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In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy's geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America,, and lately, from Syria. Some of Italy's Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
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In conversation with the exhibit Connected Diaspora: Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media — VA2238.01) (cancelled 5/30/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Veronica Melendez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will provide time and space for students to engage with the art and artists from the exhibit Connected Diaspora (on view in Usdan Gallery Fall 2023). Through lectures, workshops, and readings students will gain knowledge of established, mid career, and emerging artists from the Central American diaspora. Coursework will consist of creatively and critically
Visual Arts

In My Backyard — MOD2160.02

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
On this ever shrinking planet, the likelihood that one will be a stakeholder in a dispute over natural resources, land development or environmental injury has never been greater.  This module is designed to enrich students understanding and experience relative to effectively managing and participating in multi-party conflict resolution processes.  Students will study
Modules: Transferable Approaches

In Search of Elena Ferrante — LIT2351.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
No one knows who the author “Elena Ferrante” really is: not her publishers (allegedly), her reading public, the critics who greet each new novel with rapture, the acclaimed Italian film directors who’ve adapted two of her novels for the screen. In an international literary scene fueled by personality, publicity, and the celebrity machine, how has Ferrante managed to stay
Languages Literature

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link humanity
Society Culture and Thought

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link humanity
Society Culture and Thought

In Sickness and in Health: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health — ANT4149.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link
Society Culture and Thought

In the Box: Tools and Techniques for Working with Digital Audio — MSR4111.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course offers a thorough overview of digital audio tools, how they work, and techniques for putting them to use. Students will be guided through digital audio theory, compositional strategies and modern audio workflows covering digital synthesis, sample manipulation and impulse response design. Our focus will be on VST and VSTi plugins, impulse response based reverb and
Music

In the Eastern, Green Mountains: Poetry through an Experimental Buddhist Lens — LIT2568.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
While we conventionally read poetry through a western critical academic lens, in this course, we will approach western poetry from an experimental eastern lens, in an effort to experience the mutually illuminating relationship between poetry and contemplative study and deepen our relationship to the mystical nature of American poetry. In the first part of the semester,
Literature

In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai Project (Thailand) — APA2182.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the
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