Dance your PhD Contest video 2016 - YouTube.
Science and interpretive dance met once again this year, as PhD students around the world took to the stage to bring their research to vivid life in the annual Dance Your PhD contest.
Doctoral studies in dance Doctoral studies in dance We have a thriving doctoral research community in the Dance department, with students following traditional, mixed mode (practice based) and Doctor of Arts routes, and enjoying good inter-disciplinary links with related fields.
Launched in 2008, Dance Your PhD is an annual contest sponsored by Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in which they challenge students in chemistry, biology, physics, and social sciences to turn their Ph.D. research into an interpretive dance.
A member of the University’s Department of Zoology has scooped the top prize in Science magazine’s 2013 “Dance your PhD” competition for his video on sperm competition. Dr Cedric Tan’s choreographed interpretation of his research illustrates the mating process of chickens using a range of styles, including swing, water ballet and modern jazz.
PhD Contest Wants You to Explain Your Thesis Through Interpretive Dance Don't worry, they are offering you money to do so. Actually, that doesn't make it sound better, but still.
Last year Science magazine organized the Dance your PhD dance contest. These were the RULES of the contest. The 4 winning scientists (one for each category of undergraduate, graduate, postdoc and faculty) were then paired with professional choreographers and dancers to create a dance based on peer-reviewed scientific research.
Dance your Ph.D. Contest! Strange it as might seem, Science Magazine sponsors an annual contest in which Ph.D. holders submit for consideration a video of themselves representing their dissertation research through.dance. I've entered the contest and you can see my entry.