My name is Alana Cooper and I am a Sophomore at Bennington College! I study dance composition as well as visual arts, psychology, math and education. When I am not in class I enjoy climbing trees, drinking loose-leaf tea, exploring nature, or laughing with friends. I love jumping in Lake Paran even though it is nothing like the coast of Maine where I grew up. I would like to talk to you more about your interests and interest in Bennington! Feel free to look at my current classes under the "Alana's Classes" tab at the top of my page!
Alana Bea
Spring called to take us out of the office on a nice meandering walk through campus while the flowers started blooming…
-Alana, Glennis, and Julia ‘15
Over her last Field Work Term at Bennington, Corina Dazel worked with her dream company in D.C. You can read more about her adventures here. She is the co-founder of Movement Collective, a movement arts engagement group on campus. Her other half talks a bit about a plan in dance at Bennington which you should read about too! Lastly, you should check out this amazing video that some lovely folks of the Movement Collective Ensemble put together last term!
Please enjoy,
Alana ‘15
I just came back from being out on tour and, although it is not snowy on commons lawn today, I thought this would help me picture the best days of the winter months in Vermont!
-Alana ‘15
I know I posted this about a week ago, but I can’t help but love this video. You should all go and watch it right now:
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So I am in the midst of FWT and I have met so many amazing people. I am just about half way done and I just wanted to reflect on one amazing weekend I had the other week….
For a short rundown, I am working with Ziah, the director of a Tribal Fusion Dance Company in Atlanta, GA. I am learning administrative work, event planning, taking classes, sitting in on rehearsals, having conversations with dancers about the role dance takes in one’s life, and helping to host TribalCon, an annual music and dance convention in February!
First picture: My supervisor dancing to live bagpipes in Friday night show.
Second picture: Three lovely women of Awalim, the dance company I’m working for.
Third picture: The other wonderful circus-burlesque-and-bellydance folk I lived with the other weekend at their annual Festival of Doom!!! A lot happened in one weekend - everything from a Treehouse talk to thrift store shopping to seven performances to warehouse folk dance parties to massive communal egg scrambles in the morning.
Although I am missing all my Bennington family, I am loving this new experience of Tribal Fusion!
Here are some snapshots we took of Andrew McIntyre, our AMAZING pure math teacher. He was using a yoga ball to draw out concepts of spherical geometry, proving to us that latitudinal lines are not parallel straight lines and that some triangles have internal angles that add up to more than 180 degrees! HOW EXCITING :D We though so…
The math nerds,
Alana and Glennis
Here is one way to write a proof that I was working on in my Intro to Pure Math class today. My teacher Andrew treats his students as if they are mathematicians by guiding you to figure problems out intuitively rather than just simply plugging numbers into a formula. If you want to know anything more about any other aspects of math at Bennington or how it can fit into your other studies, I am a proud math nerd that would love to talk to you!
-Alana ‘15
One of the first pictures I took upon arriving at Bennington while I was relaxing during a homework break near the end of the world :D
