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Bennington College Chamber Singers is a small, collaborative vocal ensemble focused on the craft of vocal chamber music. We’ll explore over 900 years of repertoire, from Medieval chant and Renaissance madrigals to Baroque oratorio, gems from the Classical and Romantic periods, and contemporary experimental vocal works!
Rehearsals will function as a shared
Select students who are enrolled in Bennington College Chamber Singers will be given the opportunity to be a section leader within their voice part. A section leader acts as the primary member for their section, leading with musical and logistical proficientcy. This experience expands the students musicality and helps gain teaching/leadership. Additionally, students will be
Students in this class will read a weekly selection of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is an in-depth script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure, arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights
Taught by a former State Senator who Chaired the Senate Education Committee from 2020-2024, and is a current member of the Vermont State Board of Education, this course focuses on developing state and local policies to improve educational outcomes across the Pre-K through the grade 12 system. The class will ground its work in the 2026 Vermont State Report Card, issued
Introduces the fundamentals of guitar playing, including: posture, hand positions, tuning, chords, strumming, finger-picking, songs and tunes, major scales, and beginning to read music. History of the guitar and its past and current artists will be shared.
Correct posture for playing the guitar Several approaches to tuning the guitar
Twelve week study of twelve different guitarists of varying styles for awareness of the history of the guitar and the various styles the instrument is capable of. Enhances listening skills.
Lessons are given on a one on one basis. Each lesson is 20-25 minute-long.
If you have taken piano lessons, audition for Intermediate Piano.
This course is for students who want to learn to play the piano.
Lessons are given on a one on one basis.
Each lesson is 20-25 minute-long.
If you have taken piano lessons, audition for Intermediate Piano.
The course is designed for students with no prior string instrument experience. Admission is on a first come first serve basis. Classes will be individual (usually 20-25 min. long). Daily practice (10-15 min.) is expected so students can become familiar and comfortable with the instrument.
This is an environmental policy course with a focus on public action. The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics, including climate change impacts, alternatives to single-use plastic packaging, and the need for innovation. There will also be a focus on environmental justice.
There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories to tell — and, indeed, infinitely more than that. Do we, as Lewis Carroll’s King of Wonderland advises Alice, “Begin at the beginning . . . and go on till you come to the end: then stop”? Ought we draw up a traditional schematic, in the manner of the (in)famous Gustav Freytag, wherein an inciting
Reversing the typical shame around so-called "ESL" speakers, this course explores the rich history of modern and contemporary Anglophone literature written by authors who learned English as a second language or within a bi/multilingual context. This rigorous reading list is then used as a springboard for cultivating diverse voices and stories in the classroom.
Simone Weil wrote, “Attention in its highest form is the same thing as prayer.” In this craft course, we will explore attention as the fundamental liberators' medium of all art, and specifically, as the receptive foundation of poetry. By studying the mutually
How do prisons shape society? What socialities do carceral systems produce? What is revealed about societies through their practices of incarceration? Through key works in Black Studies, Anthropology, and Geography, we will explore these questions and more, considering the light that incarceration sheds on the study of society. In
This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, assignments and discussions will yield imaginative
This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA Dance Lab program. Critical Dance Processes: Senior Thesis Workshop supports projects emerging from research in and through the study of dance and results in the public sharing of a thesis work. Each student will propose a project, develop goals and objectives for the
Your journey toward learning the language of matter and its transformations on a molecular scale begins here. This course is the first in a four-course chemsitry sequence covering general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. We will begin with a foundational question that has intrigued philosophers and scientist for centuries and remains relevant today: What
Traditional Chinese calligraphy is an ancient art form that uses brush and ink to write Chinese characters in a refined and expressive style. It embodies visual beauty and emotion, reflecting the writer’s personality, philosophy, and cultural sensibility.
This course is designed not only as an introduction to calligraphy, but also as a space for relaxation and stress
In this course, films are used as textbooks to learn the French language and explore the French-speaking world. In order to hone their language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), students will listen to selected film dialogues to improve their listening comprehension, read and analyze excerpts from scenarios and reviews to strengthen their understanding of
CNC Fabrication: Modeling and Milling with Rhino 8 is an intermediate course in Digital Fabrication focused on Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) routing and the end-to-end workflow from digital model to fabricated object. This course will cover 3D modeling in Rhino 8 with an emphasis on designing for sheet material, including joinery, nesting, and
This course is a deep dive into color theory through rigorous hands-on practice. In the first half of the term students will develop an awareness and understanding of color’s perceptual, sensory, and material properties through color investigations and exercises using specific materials such as gouache, pastels, and collage. In the second half of the term we will delve into
This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, for those who may have composed a lot of music already but have trouble writing their music down, or for those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try. There are specific
In the first half of the term students will compose pieces for the celebrated "Eighth Blackbird" ensemble, which consists of flute(s), clarinet(s), piano, percussion, violin, and cello. In preparation for this, we will study a few important scores written for this combination of instruments. The ensemble will visit in November and read and record the
How do I begin? What's happening already…we are the studio.
This course is designed to bring together creative minds who feel the need to take the next steps into understanding how to create an idea three dimensionally. How do I take an abstract idea and begin to
This class will introduce students to creating digital archive that includes digitizing photographs, documents, art works, file management, and basic types of metadata. We will have discussions about why digitizing personal collections is so important. Students will be expected to bring their own materials to
