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Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Throughout this course, we will work with simple partnering exercises that focus on the sense of touch, the sharing of weight, and the play of counterbalancing. Within each class, after an initial warm-up, we will progress to larger more complex forms and lifts. It is easier to move someone already in motion. By taking our partners off center, we are destabilizing and then
Dance

Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Throughout this course, we will work with simple partnering exercises that focus on the sense of touch, the sharing of weight, and the play of counterbalancing. Within each class, after an initial warm-up, we will progress to larger more complex forms and lifts. It is easier to move someone already in motion. By taking our partners off center, we are destabilizing and then
Dance

Movement Practice: Puppance, an Advanced Movement Study of Puppetry and Dance — DAN4246.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Puppance is an advanced movement practice class that mobilizes the interrelationships between the human body, objects, and puppets. We will examine the broad range of how these forms overlap through the physical practices of dancing, building puppets, and creating scores based on our research. In dance we often talk about how “the space moves us.”  In this class, we will
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali - Traditional West African Dance I — DAN2413.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is an introduction to Sabar (traditional dance, drum, and ceremony) from Sénégal and Gambia and Traditional West African Mandingo dance and music forms. We will build an improvisation practice that explores the dynamics between the musicians and dancers as well as how movement and live music can be experienced as a singular, integrated entity.  We will also
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali - Traditional West African Dance II — DAN4487.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students with some dance background, this version of Sénémali is taught at a more advanced level. This course is an introduction to Sabar (traditional dance, drum, and ceremony) from Sénégal and Gambia and Traditional West African Mandingo dance and music forms. We will build an improvisation practice that explores the dynamics between the musicians and dancers as well as
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali I- Drumming & Dancing — DAN2423.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

This course provides a vibrant introduction to the traditional West African rhythms and movements of the Mandingo and Wolof communities. Students will embark on a journey through both drumming and dancing disciplines, mastering intricate rhythms that will expand their musical vocabulary and enhance their dance techniques.

Black Studies Dance Composition Musical Performance

Movement Practice: Spiraling around... — DAN2364.01) (cancelled 10/7/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course we will explore spiraling in and 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 from the floor and come back to it. We will create movement sequences and phrases sourced from postmodern dance techniques and Flying Low (movement

Movement Practice: Spiraling around... — DAN4501.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this course we will explore spiraling in and 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 from the floor and come back to it. We will create movement sequences and phrases sourced from postmodern dance techniques and Flying Low (movement
Dance

Movement Practice: The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course integrates various methods of speaking and sounding into our dance and movement practice. Employing multiple improvisational structures, we will access the healing, expressive and artistic possibilities of sound and language as an extension of the body. Additionally, we will look at the work of contemporary artists who engage with language and body-generated
Dance

Movement Practice: The Gentle Warrior — DAN2357.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Through direct personal experience, students will gain a deeper understanding of the body in motion. We will engage in movement research from a multitude of improvisational, somatic, dance and movement approaches; will delve into using floor patterns and scores for sensing and tracking the body while moving; will discover alliance with breath, floor, imagination, and
Dance

Movement Practice: The Phenomenal State of Permeability — DAN4153.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Maura Gahan
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class, “The Phenomenal State of Permeability” (as coined by Margit Galanter), is a practice of engaging with the senses -- vision, touch, sound, and smell -- to compose movement, objects and space. ‘Warming ups’ will be offered followed by verbal “calls” and “scores” — primarily sourced, but not limited to, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores—as a way of measuring, revealing, and
Dance

Movement Practice: The Principles of Allongé — DAN2279.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This dance class examines the principles of allongé in the dancing body. Allongé is the French adjective used to describe a “position” that is stretched or made longer. Otherwise known as ‘qi’, extension or pointing, allongé allows energy to move from the center of mass (in the pelvis) out through the spine, tail and limbs, extending into the distance (with the imagination) and
Dance

Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics and Dance — DAN2213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
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Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics, and Dance — DAN2213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
Dance

Movement Practice:  Dance Improvisation — DAN2153.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For those seeking a rigorous and adventurous movement practice. No prior movement training necessary.  We will work with the essential aspects of moving, to develop basic skills of physical articulation, strength and endurance, and to expand our physical range and potential.    By actively engaging in the play of improvisation, we learn to respond
Dance

Moving and Forming (Dance Composition) — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For both first-time and intermediate choreographers, this is an exploration of the basic components of moving and forming. We work improvisationally to build physical awareness, unearth movement ideas, images, and memories, and form many small dances. We develop improvisational scores as well as set pieces, and give particular attention to the performance site. Projects are
Dance

Moving into Creative Process — MOD2140.03

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
No prior movement training required. The less the better. Looking to locate and deepen our creative impulses, we will use moving as the medium for forming a series of short studies. We will research practices that can support and expand our personal work processes and endeavor to rid ourselves of the distractions and habits that limit us. We will look at the preparation and
Dance Modules: Transferable Approaches

Moving into Creative Process — MOD2140.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
No prior movement training required. The less the better. Looking to locate and deepen our creative impulses, we will use moving as the medium for forming a series of short studies. We will research practices that can support and expand our personal work processes and endeavor to rid ourselves of the distractions and habits that limit us. We will look at the preparation and
Dance Modules: Transferable Approaches

Moving/ Forming/ Partnering — DAN2118.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time:
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 develop physical awareness and physical facility and work to unearth movement ideas, images, and memories. In the partnering practices we will deal with many of the same questions found in Contact
Dance

Mozart's Idomeneo — MVO4265.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Gods, kings, princesses, sea serpents...at Bennington! This seven week class invites students to participate in a concert performance of Mozart's "choral opera" Idomeneo performed by the Bennington Choral Society with professional singers and orchestra. Students will learn the extensive choral sections and be considered for minor roles. The chorus will play different roles
Drama Music

Multi-Media Performance: Manipulating Time/ Space — MA4146.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. The course will be a forum for actors, animators, dancers, video artists, and others to explore the interaction of live performance and mediated images. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into performance and used to
Visual Arts