Tapped In: The Bennington Blog

The original Bennington girls getting diggity.

- David ‘13

[Part 8 of the Posters at Bennington Series]

One of the most common questions I’m asked on tours is “What is there to do at Bennington?” I know that before I came here I couldn’t for the life of me imagine what one would do all day at a small liberal arts school in Vermont. But when I visited campus I realized that everywhere I looked, the walls were plastered with posters advertising clubs, performances, discussions, lectures, films, and more.

So I thought, for those of you who can’t visit campus just yet, that I’d start a weekly series where I showcase some of the posters around campus over the past year or two. All photo credits go to the folks behind the Bennington College Flickr!

-Ellie

We’ve had the excellent suggestion that we photograph some of the academic spaces on campus.

So every week we’re going to take you on a tour through a new discipline or building’s spaces.

This week we’ve done Martha Hill, the Dance Theatre, and the two dance rehearsal studios in VAPA.

Enjoy!

Liam (and the boyz)

[Part 3 of the Posters at Bennington Series]

One of the most common questions I’m asked on tours is “What is there to do at Bennington?” I know that before I came here I couldn’t for the life of me imagine what one would do all day at a small liberal arts school in Vermont. But when I visited campus I realized that everywhere I looked, the walls were plastered with posters advertising clubs, performances, discussions, lectures, films, and more.

So I thought, for those of you who can’t visit campus just yet, that I’d start a weekly series where I showcase some of the posters around campus over the past year or two. All photo credits go to the folks behind the Bennington College Flickr!

-Ellie

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benningtoncollege:

Photo by Briee Della Rocca

benningtoncollege:

Photo by Briee Della Rocca

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artofthehive:

Martha Graham and students at Bennington College

http://www.americandancefestival.org

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sepc:

Dance at Bennington presents the Senior Dance Concert featuring new work by:

Lydia Chrisman
Emily Climer
Mary Gordanier
Theo Koppel
Veronica O’Leary
Naomi Washer

Show A: Naomi, Theo, and Mary
Friday, April 27th at 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 28th at 2:00 pm

Show B: Veronica, Emily, and Lydia
Saturday, April 28th at 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 29th at 2:00 pm

Come see what we’ve made, bring your friends, it will be a good time.

In Martha Hill!

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I'm a high school junior and super curious about Bennington. I also dance and was specifically wondering what the dance program an Bennington is like. Any thoughts? — Asked by Anonymous

I’m not a dance student per se, but I happen to live with about 10 of them, and honestly you’d have to try pretty hard at walking around with your eyes and ears shut to avoid hearing about it everywhere here! To make a series of wildly broad generalizations that I’m sure I’ll get several angry texts about in a few minutes: Dance is to Bennington what football is to Oklahoma State what physics is to MIT. Modern dance was born here, and 75 years later Bennington students and teachers are still innovating and generally doing incredible things.

Kenny could hop on here and provide more specifics, but alas, he is in San Francisco working in a dance studio for field work term, so I’ll do my best. Dance at Bennington is generally more composition-centric (as opposed to technique-centric) and in addition to specific coursework, a Bennington dance student can expect to be involved in student work starting their first term. That might mean doing lighting or stage crew, but for most dancers that means actually dancing!

By the time you’re a junior you’ll be getting into doing your own compositions for Martha Hill (the big-deal dance showcase that anyone who’s anyone attends) as well as whatever independent shows you might invent for yourself to do.

The Dance community here is a ton of fun, and what’s most admirable is how seriously they take their work. The best of the best come here to dance, and it can be pretty demanding (again, ask Kenny), but it’s really a special treat for the rest of us to see the things they do. There really is nothing else quite like it.

- Mike ‘14

Recognize anyone on Google today? My friend Fizza mentioned something about the Google doodle being Bennington-esque so I decided to check it out. A tribute to Martha Graham, modern dance pioneer? Er, yes please. I’ll take two to go. Reblog if this makes you want to dance at Bennington.

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