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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">David Rolnick <<a href="mailto:drolnick@mit.edu">drolnick@mit.edu</a>><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Science Through Dance, April 1 @ 7:30 pm</b><br>
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<div style="text-align:left">Communicating Science @ MIT presents:</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><b><font size="4">Science Through Dance</font></b><br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:center"><i>- - Discussion + dinner with dancers and teachers - -</i></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Have you ever tried to dance like a nuclear reactor? </div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">We will discuss the idea of learning by moving, how dance is successfully used to illustrate concepts in science, mathematics, and engineering that may be hard to put into words, and the tensions inherent in developing
both interesting and scientifically accurate choreography.<br>
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<div style="text-align:center"><i>Wednesday, April 1</i></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><i>7:30-8:30 pm</i></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><i><b>Dinner</b> (MIT-only) served at 7 pm</i></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><i>RSVP at <a href="http://signup.mit.edu/sciencedance" target="_blank">signup.mit.edu/sciencedance</a></i></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><u>Panelists:</u></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b>Emily Benz</b>, <i>president of SHINE Boston, a not-for-profit organization that teaches math and dance to middle school girls</i></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b>Mariah Steele</b>, <i>artistic director of Quicksilver Dance and co-teacher of </i><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i>12.097: Science, Dance and The Creative Process</i></span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b>Hans Rinderknecht</b>, <i>MIT postdoctoral fellow in Plasma Science and Fusion, and winner of the international Dance Your PhD prize in Physics</i></span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b>Courtney Peix</b>, <i>artistic director of Contrapose Dance, and choreographer of dances about oceanography at WHOI / MIT</i></div>
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<div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">David Rolnick</div>
<div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Department of Mathematics</div>
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