Kavya Kaushik

October 11, 2017

What Dance Production Can Learn From Agile Software Development

Kavya Kaushik

October 11, 2017

What Dance Production Can Learn From Agile Software Development

Dance and theatre production works identically to software production: creatives come together
to build a product, perform it for audiences, and improve the product after audience feedback.

Jody Oberfelder

October 11, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

A Dancer’s Perspective: Science and Public Engagement. Experiencing the World via Movement, Perception, Thoughts, and Emotions

Jody Oberfelder

October 11, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

A Dancer’s Perspective: Science and Public Engagement. Experiencing the World via Movement, Perception, Thoughts, and Emotions

Does your Body Think? Do your Neurons Dance? And who is the choreographer?

Ali Golding

September 12, 2017

What TED taught me: An idea worth spreading

Ali Golding

September 12, 2017

What TED taught me: An idea worth spreading

“Dance movement is powerful” the opening line of my recent TEDx talk; a throwing down of a metaphorical gauntlet to invite deep consideration over the next 18 minutes of my topic ‘The science of dance: Why...

Charlotte Maxwell

September 12, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

To access all areas: using dance and science to become more inclusive of disability and reflective on accessibility

Charlotte Maxwell

September 12, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

To access all areas: using dance and science to become more inclusive of disability and reflective on accessibility

When we watch dance, we are exposing ourselves to a series of movements and transitions that link together to share a story and emotion with us. One might say that the moving moves us. But when we consider the...

Emily S. Cross

August 30, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

On Moving Limbs, Dancing Brains, and Mind-Body Connections between Performers and Spectators

Emily S. Cross

August 30, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

On Moving Limbs, Dancing Brains, and Mind-Body Connections between Performers and Spectators

Choreographer and philosopher Ivar Hagendoorn once remarked that “The limbs move, but it is the brain that dances”. With these words, Hagendoorn resolutely places the brain on centre stage, in a domain more often...

Ka Bradley

August 29, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

Dance as public service announcement: the use of voiceovers and scripted delivery in dance

Ka Bradley

August 29, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

Dance as public service announcement: the use of voiceovers and scripted delivery in dance

Epigraphs are an invitation to argument. Pithy, graceful, severed from context and recontextualised – often rehashed and rerealised – by the authors of essays, books, poetry collections and blog posts, they are words...

Quentin Cooper

August 21, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

Every scientist has at least a bit of artist in them

Quentin Cooper

August 21, 2017

Alternative Thoughts

They might not realise it, but every scientist has at least a bit of artist in them. Back in the 1830s, when the newly formed British Association for the Advancement of Science (now the British Science Association) began holding big...