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“In the context of pattern, the elements of drawing take on an unexpected weight. Thicken a line here, flatten a curve, deepen the tone—it’s not simply a form that changes. The rhythm of the whole alters. The effect of variants in pattern, sometimes violent, is hard to describe in the usual formal terms. Our aesthetic vocabulary was built
This class will serve as the Ensemble for plays being developed in Abe Koogler's Advanced New Play Development LAB. Actors will become part of an ensemble focused on the process of supporting playwrights as they refine and edit drafts of new work they are developing. Actors in the ensemble will be asked to read multiple roles from multiple new plays over the term
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.
Performance Pedagogies of Dance (PODs) courses offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, linking studio practice, choreographic research processes and performance. Through participation in choreographic projects facilitated by faculty and guest artists, PODs are designed to help students recognize
Performance Pedagogies of Dance (PODs) courses offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, linking studio practice, choreographic research processes and performance. Through participation in choreographic projects facilitated by faculty and guest artists, PODs are designed to help students recognize
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of observing the night sky with a telescope. This course will teach how to find the basic constellations and how to use both manual and computerized telescopes to point at celestial objects in the night sky. While there will be some classroom time to teach fundamental concepts, the vast majority of the class will consist
In a Practical Introduction to Material Science, students will be exploring the science of glaze and clay chemistry. This course is designed to enable students with the confidence to understand material science and to overcome any trepidation they may feel about glaze and clay formulation. Beginning with developing an understanding of the major components
What does it mean for a mathematical problem to be unsolvable? The very concept does not seem to have been much considered, until, in 1824, a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel published a small pamphlet on an old problem. The pamphlet was one of the first markers of a sea change in mathematics, and by the time Abel died, six years later at the age of twenty-six,
An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify what constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body,
Sculpture and vessels are realized through an exchange between the medium and the self. The class will begin with the question:
What is Sculpture?
What is a Vessel?
Projects will push forward conceptual topics specific to sculpture and vessels including form and presence, the body, light and illusion upon form, the transformation of
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. Focusing upon the practical application of dramaturgy, this course will offer students a credited platform for dramaturgical work oriented toward production.
Three
This semester-length, 4-credit course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2023, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production (or for 8th term students, post-production and finishing) for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed
Individual piano lessons for more advanced students.
A weekly 45 minute lessons time is arranged with the instructor.
This advanced level course is also an introduction to lithographic processes. Students will start by processing and printing images from limestone. We will end the semester by exploring the possibilities of making positive films to expose lithographic plates and color by overprinting. This studio class is structured around a number of projects, each one ending with a group
This course is for students who have already taken an audio mixing course at Bennington. We explore the art and science of mixing and producing audio for both emergent immersive formats and traditional legacy platforms.
Through critical listening,
This is an advanced scene study class which will explore the canon of work by Paula Vogel. Students will be assigned scenes and monologues from this canon, and the class as a whole will read all of the plays being worked on during the term. Rehearsal techniques, character development and sensory exploration of these plays will be a large part of the focus for the actors in
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. In the Advanced Scriptorium, we build on skills from 2000-level Scriptorium classes while working to achieve an ambitious goal: the writing and revision of a long-form critical essay on a text of your
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor.
There will be an emphasis
AI tools can now write your essays, generate images from a sentence, and hold conversations that feel disturbingly human. You’ve probably already used them. But do you know how they actually work? Do you know who built them, what data they were trained on, and who benefits when you use them? This course takes AI seriously in three ways: technically, critically, and
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or projection design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and consistent endeavor. The first half of the semester will be concerned with conceptualizing and framing the world of the animations or projections, by research, drawings, investigation, imagining. The second half will be creating the
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by primarily stop motion. Locations will be constructed, objects animated, and lighting explored in order to create the imaginary world. The worlds will be captured via Dragonframe® to create short animations, as well as creating stories by projections of
“One could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy… The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective.”
— Erwin Panofsky,
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Students will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. History of the African origins of banjo and its introduction to the western world will
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance.
Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor.
