Dance Your PhD
February 18, 2019 3:56 PM Subscribe
Dance Your PhD winners are in for 2019. Overall winner: Superconductivity, The Musical. Biology winner, and audience favourite: The (un)conscious brain. Chemistry winner: Percolation Theory - Conducting Plastics. Social Science winner: Movements as a Door for Learning Physics Concepts - Integrating Embodied Pedagogy in Teaching.
Wonderful! I worked at a school that kept harping about the now discredited learning modalities theory where students are divided into visual, auditory, kinematic modalities. We all learn through all modalities. The social science one was quite inspiring. Physics is movement and moving in order to learn the concepts makes perfect sense. Plus I think if someone deeply entrenched in some scientific area such as superconduction is asked to put it all into a really different context, such as dance, would be forced to rethink their ideas and then get a whole new way of thinking about it. This is great.
posted by njohnson23 at 7:26 PM on February 18, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 7:26 PM on February 18, 2019 [2 favorites]
I keep seeing the final title as "Movements, as a Door, for Learning Physics Concepts". That is, you're moving like a door to learn physics.
posted by hippybear at 9:05 PM on February 18, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 9:05 PM on February 18, 2019 [1 favorite]
They do kind of move like a door in the angular velocity lesson, so you're not completely off.
posted by clawsoon at 5:19 AM on February 19, 2019
posted by clawsoon at 5:19 AM on February 19, 2019
Is it unrealistic to think about pursuing a PhD so that I can choreograph a dance about it? These are all my favorite things! Keep thinking, keep dancing!
posted by meinvt at 6:39 AM on February 19, 2019
posted by meinvt at 6:39 AM on February 19, 2019
Superconductivity The Musical brought giggletears to my eyes. That was genuinely so so so good.
posted by twoplussix at 7:29 AM on February 19, 2019
posted by twoplussix at 7:29 AM on February 19, 2019
Is the theory that makes the first presentation the winner? I thought it was roughly done, and it certainly could have been at least two minutes shorter.
The choreography, music, and total execution in the other three are just stupendous. Any or all of those three are winners!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:26 PM on February 20, 2019
The choreography, music, and total execution in the other three are just stupendous. Any or all of those three are winners!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:26 PM on February 20, 2019
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posted by meinvt at 4:10 PM on February 18, 2019 [1 favorite]