Why I Boogied With a Black Hole
Dance Your Ph.D. Allowed Me to Turn My Doctoral Research Into Performance, and to Combine My Love of Art and Science
I’m dancing over and around four people lying face-up in a giant L-formation on the grass of Caltech’s Beckman Lawn, a place usually devoted to Frisbee gatherings. I’m wearing a bunny suit (a hooded, head-to-toe garment traditionally only seen inside a laboratory), and like me, my companions are dressed all in white. We stand out sharply against the green grass, and passers-by stop to stare.
If we weren’t gyrating wildly to “The Humpty Dance” on repeat, we’d be staring, too. We’re all Caltech community members, and normally you can find us …
