Sunday 12 September 2010
How would you dance your PhD?
Work is keeping me busier than usual this week so this will be a brief post. I've decided to keep with the dance theme to let you know about an incredibly original idea I read about today. I've seen science being communicated in the form of text, diagrams, video and photography but this is a first. Dance your PhD is a contest that aims to get anyone with a science-related PhD, or studying to get one, to explain what their thesis is about through dance. (It definitely got me thinking about how I could dance a thesis on “Variability of Black-hole Accretion Discs: a theoretical study”!) The initiative is sponsored by Science and there's even a money prize for the contestants who best describe the scientific content of their PhDs in dance form, while putting on a creative and artistic show. Unfortunately it is too late to take part in the 2010 competition but there's always next year. In the mean time, think about it: how would you dance your PhD?
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This is hilarious! At first I thought it was a joke but looking at the dances they seem really quite good. I suppose science could be quite suited to this kind of format since dancers can represent molecules, atoms, planets, animals etc. I wonder how you would dance literary theory...
my PhD dances, usually involving great frustration, have so far only happened late at night in the faculty library.
I'm pretty sure that 95% of science PhD dances look exactly like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96eSrFlUVh0
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