Kinetic energy

Abstract

In the academic culture, science and art are often viewed as wholly separate intellectual spheres. When the two disciplines are juxtaposed, however, a researcher may have the ability to understand each discipline, and the relationship between the two disciplines, more deeply. Science has the potential to provide inspiration for art, and art has the ability to explain science. In the dance performance concert Kinetic Energy, scientific concepts such as the research process, the Ideal Gas Law, magnetic fields, waves, the Universe, and the physiology of the human heart, are expressed through dance. The purpose of this expression was to provide the dance community with exposure to scientific concepts and to provide the scientific community with an opportunity to broaden their creativity and viewpoint of concepts they may have previously studied.