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Inspired by Max Roach’s revolutionary percussion collective, this ensemble operates as a collaborative laboratory where composition, improvisation, and performance intersect. M’Boom famously reimagined percussion as a frontline melodic and harmonic force bridging jazz, chamber music, and world music. In this hands-on course, students will
How do drum beats travel, mutate, and survive? This performance-driven lab traces the sonic pathways of the African diaspora, transforming historical inquiry into hands-on kit playing. The modern drum set is a physical fusion of instruments from across the globe—each carrying its own distinct cultural lineage. To truly master the kit, contemporary players must become
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
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
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.
This class will function like a graduate-level playwriting seminar. Students will bring in ten new pages a week for workshop; everyone will share their new pages each week. By the end of the term, each student will have a completed full-length play ready for submission to development and production opportunities at Bennington and beyond.
This is a projects class for students of design (including architecture). Students will work together in a supportive and challenging studio environment to offer feedback and assistance toward their various projects including (but not limited to) architectural projects, graphic projects, and projects that combine physical making with digital image and object manipulation.
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
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,
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
This class is anchored by students' independent research projects in the field of anthropology. The seminar may be taken either as a one-off or in conjunction with the Fall seminar, "Ethnography Lab." In this class, students will develop their research and writing in anthropology, working through description, contextualization, analysis
“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, Perspective as Symbolic Form This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We
In this course- students with approved projects and/or acting/design/directing collaborators for projects that have been approved for presentation in Spring 27- will meet regularly with Faculty Sponsor as they rehearse, design and present these student projects. Students may be assigned credits based upon their involvement in the project.
