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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
This class will investigate meaningful pedagogical approaches to Food Studies. Building on the various “Social Kitchen” activities previously pursued at Bennington College through classes, FWT initiatives, internships, work study, extracurricular activities and independent research undertaken by Bennington College students, we will
How did American poets contribute to the fight for the abolition of slavery in the 19th Century? And how have contemporary poets carried forward that legacy? This 2-credit, 7-week course will focus primarily on poetry of the mid-1800s published in abolitionist newspapers like The Liberator, including works by William Lloyd Garrison, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and craft readings students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instruments and artistic voices while learning to trust their inner impulses as they develop basic acting technique. Extensive out of class
For students considering or undertaking senior work, independent research, or combined thesis projects in art history or visual/material culture. This practicum is a hybrid methods proseminar AND writing workshop designed for advanced students with prior coursework in art history beyond the introductory level. Whether you wish to revise, amplify, or refine an existing art
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
Forest ecosystems regulate climate, store and filter water, provide food and fiber, and serve as recreational areas and sacred spaces. These ecosystems are undergoing dramatic changes with important ecological, economic, and social consequences for the future of ecosystems and society. Vermont is among the most forested states in the U.S.
This course is an in-depth exploration of improvised comedy scene work, with a central focus on finding and playing “Game.” Game is loosely defined as a pattern of unusual behavior that breaks from the pattern of your everyday life. In other words, Game is what's funny about your scene.
To play Game in a long-form scene, you’ll learn to answer three key questions:
As the tools for lighting design become increasingly complex and advanced, so must the understanding of the artists using them. This course will explore some of the most important technologies used in contemporary professional lighting design. This includes not only the moving lights, LEDs, and control consoles used to create our
This technique class is designed for advanced dance students with previous experience who wish to be challenged by learning complicated set material and improvisational structures from various contemporary dance choreographies.
Class will begin with
Individual piano lessons for more advanced students.
A weekly 45 minute lessons time is arranged with the instructor.
“…every form of making a world through our encounters with things is fully multi-modal. It is principally a mixture of modes of know-how (technê) and modes of know-what (epistêmê) with more complex combinations of the two wherein the hard distinction between technique and episteme collapses.”
—Reza Negarestani, What does it take to make anything at all?
This is an advanced course in drawing for students interested in developing a sustained, semester-long drawing based project or body of work. Students will work on self-directed projects in an effort to develop and refine individual concerns and subject matter. To thrive in this course, the development of a strong work ethic is crucial and a high level of commitment
Students will work towards completing one moving image piece or body or work of their own devising during the course of the semester. This course is primarily intended for seventh- and eighth-term students with a Plan concentration in Film/Video who have already taken Advanced Projects I in the prior fall, but exceptions may be made by permission of the instructor. Students
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
This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person’s artistic voice and manner of working.
Attention will be given to all elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and large
White supremacy is written into every layer of life, an escapable aspect of the modern condition. This hopelessness, though, is just the beginning for the Afropessimist, who nonetheless plots out a radical course forward–– Could pessimism be the real path to freedom? Through a deep reading of Frank B. Wilderson III and Saidyah Hartman, Jared Sexton (and others), we will mine
Actions in Practice engages students in intensive study within the methodologies and philosophies of Sidra Bell.
CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS - an interior & material approach
Actions in Practice Lab serves as a site of continued process and research that supports and extends work done in the Actions in Practice
Actions In Practice: Junior Choreography Workshop positions creative research as a multifaceted practice that includes dancing, reading, writing, drawing, sound-making and theatrical design. The course weaves choreographic practice and group study
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play?
This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor’s process: character research,
This performance ensemble will immerse students in the distorted lutes, fuzzy guitars, swirling electronic effects, driving percussion, and soulful vocals of rock music in Turkey. Inspired by the music of artists like Elvis Presley and Fats Domino, the earliest Turkish rock musicians began to explore the sonic possibilities of adapting western instruments and amplification
In this class we will do a group exploration of the history of Earth’s surface environment. Much of this material would have classically been included in an undergraduate Geology curriculum as “Historical Geology”. However, our current state of rapid human-caused climate change, coupled with unprecedented observation of planets both within and outside
