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Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"If you are really doing it, you don't have time to watch yourself doing it." Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a Master Teacher of Acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. The class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique II — DRA4269.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will advance the work of Meisner I into the exploration of text and scene work. We will discover how to transform words on the page into vital improvisation by continually giving up our ideas of how we think a scene should be acted and trusting in what is actually happening between the actors on stage, in the moment. We will embark on a process of character
Drama

Melancholy Pilates — DAN2361.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Instead of approaching movement seeking transformation, Melancholy Pilates is a class to stay with how you feel and feel it more. How can we move with feelings of sadness and melancholy? This class asks the student to practice finding action, even when the body might feel stagnant, leaden, or difficult to motivate. We will utilize a lot of horizontal positions to build length
Dance

Merely Players: Shakespeare’s Women, Shakespeare’s Men — DRA2164.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jean Randich
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A revival of an old tradition in the playing of Shakespeare has been rocking stages around the world: cross-gender casting. Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed by men and boys. But when the Globe Theater’s all male double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III hit Broadway in 2013, theatergoers screamed with delight. Similarly, when Phyllida Lloyd and Harriet Walter
Drama

Metafiction and Authorship — SPA4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will be an exploration of metafiction and authorship in Spanish literature, film, and other arts. Through a careful consideration of several important, often playful, yet sharply critical works in Spanish, as well as their most significant theoretical underpinnings, students will read and discuss text that calls attention to itself as an artifice, and therefore,
Languages

Metal Casting : Iron and Aluminum — SCU2211.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting Iron and Aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects or casting from the body. After a form has been produced the
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Metal Casting: Iron and Aluminum — SCU2211.01) (cancelled 5/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting iron and aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects, or casting from the body. After a form has been produced,
Visual Arts

Metal casting: Iron and Aluminum — SCU2211.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting Iron and Aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects or casting from the body. After a form has been produced the
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Metal Sculpture Fabrication MSF — SCU4113.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This seven-week intensive studio class will focus on enhancing skills that were taught in the introduction metal-shop class and further develop these techniques based on the manipulation of mild and cold rolled steel. Many sculptural processes will be demonstrated within this seven-week intensive course that builds further on the knowledge and practice covered in prior classes
Visual Arts

Metal Shop — SCU2107.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
T­­­­­his seven week intensive metal shop course will involve basic safety instruction for all stationary power tools and hand tools. Demonstrations will be observed and understood before practicing on your own. The following processes will be covered in this course: introduction to the material, oxygen and acetylene cutting and welding, plasma cutting, arc welding (stick), and
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop — SCU2206.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture. It is open to other students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of the term.
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop — SCU2107.02) (cancelled 5/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding (electrode/stick,GMAW), forging (cold and hot), fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note
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Metal Workshop — SCU2107.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is project based and students are evaluated on their ability to use the shop tools with proficiency and safety.Metal workshop is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in any ferrous fabrication methods. There are fundamental introductions to acetylene cutting / welding, electric welding (GMAW and stick welding) forging,
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop — SCU2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This seven week intensive class will involve basic safety instruction for all stationary power tools and hand tools. All demonstrations will be observed and understood before practicing on your own. The following processes will be covered in this course: introduction to the mild steel, oxygen and acetylene cutting and welding, plasma cutting, arc welding, MIG welding, hot and
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop — SCU2107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note that this course may require
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Metal Workshop — SCU2107.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding (MIG and TIG), forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note that this course may
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Metal Workshop — SCU2206.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture. It is open to other students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop North Gate — SCU4107.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is project based and students are evaluated on their ability to use the shop tools with proficiency and safety. For this second seven weeks we will work from a plan and fabricate the North Gate here at Bennington College. As it stands a temporary chain acts as the membrane between North Bennington and Bennington College.  This is an opportunity to be a part of
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Metal Workshop Part 2: Non-Ferrous — SCU4111.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is project based and is a second part to the first seven weeks metal workshop course. In this course we will focus on cutting and welding non-ferrous metals. Hand cutting and CNC assisted plasma cutting will be the methods in which stock will be cut. The fabrication processes will begin through brazing methods (acetylene) for connecting non-similar metals. We will
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Metal Workshop Part II — SCU4110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For the second seven weeks we will develop skills in working with equipment that lends itself to non- ferrous metals, other exotic alloys, and stainless steel. We will gain knowledge of GTAW welding in the areas of direct current electrode negative (DCEN), direct current electrode positive (DCEP), and also AC welding. With new technologies we are able to adjust the output
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