Dana Kotler and Joy Gibson are two dancers and medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine who decided they’d like to illustrate the neuronal action potential through the medium of modern dance. It’s a rather unique interpretation and one that will likely stay with me for a while.
And if that doesn’t interest you, just think of girls in leotards throwing salt at each other in the service of a scientifically accurate dance spectacular. And from what I can make out, they’ve illustrated potassium flow with bananas.
Even better, they even go on to illustrate how the action potential breaks down during demyelenating diseases.
And if you still have your dancing shoes on, Scientific America has a brief but interesting article discussing why we might enjoy dance at all.
Link to Action Potential – the performance.
Link to SciAm on ‘Why do we like to dance?’
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