Dance your Ph.D. 2014 winners announced

November 3, 2014 10:33 AM

Creativity and science meet for monetary prizes! Dance your Ph.D. is a contest held annually to celebrate the connection of science and art with no jargon allowed.

This year's winner uses acrobatics to explain how plant life recovers after natural disasters is amazing. See past winners here.

posted by AlexiaSky (10 comments total)

The opportunity to dance my PhD is a strong motivator for finishing up the damn thing.
posted by ChuraChura at 10:59 AM on November 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

I don't think it actually has to be finished . Start working on it for 2015 :)
posted by AlexiaSky at 11:03 AM on November 3, 2014

Yay, one of the previous winners cites me! On the technical side rather than the interpretative dance side.
posted by biffa at 11:08 AM on November 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

This is for my imaginary PhD in Post-soviet Russian socioeconomics.
posted by Kabanos at 11:16 AM on November 3, 2014

Protein Synthesis, as performed by a bunch of Stanford hippies in the 70s. I'm sure this must have been linked at some point in the past.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 11:20 AM on November 3, 2014

Yes, it was here.

Also, here are FPPs for Dance your PhD 2008, 2009, 2010.
posted by Kabanos at 11:59 AM on November 3, 2014

I got to meet the people behind the protein synthesis film when they had a screening in San Jose.
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:13 PM on November 3, 2014

But is it sexy?
posted by marienbad at 1:00 PM on November 3, 2014

The mayonnaise one is hilarious!
posted by msbubbaclees at 1:15 PM on November 3, 2014

I LOL'd at the "tornado!" caption in the plant one. The mayonnaise one was so awesome (and what gorgeous landscape!). The postcolonial one was clearly a lot of work but oddly lacking in a sense of argument.
posted by TwoStride at 8:01 PM on November 3, 2014