Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique (DAN2121.01)

Elena Demyanenko

This basic movement class will develop and explore each student’s own curiosity and ability to create a constantly evolving way of becoming one’s own teacher. The class will serve as…

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique (DAN4344.01)

Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow

This advanced movement practice will begin slowly through utilizing alignment exercises, scores, improvisation and set phrase material. We will investigate the interconnections of fascial tissue and energetic pathways, and explore…

Bass Intensive (MIN4026.01)

Michael Bisio

Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor. Co-requisite: students must be enrolled in MIN4417 simultaneously, no exceptions. Favorite…

Making from Scratch/Sourcing the Body (DAN2256.01)

Elena Demyanenko

…of this research with a view to presenting and performing in studio showings, produced performances, and/or dance workshops. Attendance at Dance Workshop (Thursday 7:00pm – 8:30 pm) is highly recommended….

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices (DAN2149.01)

Elena Demyanenko

…somatic movement approaches to movement education. We will read and discuss writings from key developers of the field, many of whom have had a major influence on contemporary dance. Tools…

America in the World: Past, Present, Future (HIS4204.01)

Eileen Scully

…In this intensive seminar, we work through primary sources across two centuries, examining the thinking, constraints, and goals of not only the formulators of foreign policy, but of those outside…

Droughts & Floods – an Economic Analysis of Natural Disasters (PEC2107.01)

Lopamudra Banerjee

…drought disasters on people can be empirically studied in terms of household survey datasets. This will be a seminar for students in their first and second year of college. Favorite…

Bennington County Choral Society – Bach and Haydn (MPF2164.01)

Kerry Ryer-Parke

The Bennington County Choral Society is a community chorus conducted by Cailin Marcel Manson. The Choral Society promotes choral singing by presenting several concerts per year, and eagerly invites student…

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians (MPF4357.01)

Michael Wimberly

…emergent forms. For musicians, attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the moment. Dancers are expected to…

Traditional Music Ensemble (MPF4221.01)

John Kirk

We will study and perform from the string band traditions of rural America. Nova Scotia, Quebecois, Irish, New England, Scandinavian, African American dance and ballad traditions will also be experienced…

Traditional Music of North America (MHI2135.01)

John Kirk

…Cajun, Blues, Gospel, and Conjunto music. Instrumental, dance, and ballad traditions are explored. Students must bring a guitar, banjo, mandolin, or fiddle (or other social instrument) to class for purposes…

Philosophies and Formal Elements of Animation and the Moving Image (MA4104.01)

Robby Gilbert

Zoetropes, phenakistascopes, pepper’s ghosts, puppets, VR, film, projection, games, music, dance, and animation are just a few examples of ways to explore the elements of movement in time-based media. In…

Makers & Making/Performance in the 21st Century (DAN4129.01)

Elena Demyanenko

“Isn’t every artist essentially starting from nothing, no matter what they might have presented to theater directors or financiers? Isn’t the meaning of a work always discovered, to some extent,…