Not yet, anyway. This video took a lot of work: The makers talk (in an IEEE Spectrum interview) about how they went about making it: How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics’ VP of Engineering, tells us where Atlas got its moves from …Strictly speaking, the stuff going on in […]
Tag: dance
Derridian deconstruction of the Futterwacken Dance [new study]
Itsnaini Lailiyah Ananda of Airlangga University, Surabaya, East Java, presents (what is believed to be) the first Deconstruction of scene of Futterwacken Dance in Alice in Wonderland movie by Tim Burton in the latest issue of the university’s arts journal Terob, Vol XI, Apr. 2019. “Derridian structure of thinking explain the latent meaning behind non-empty texts […]
Dance of the Dung Beetles: A book for all humans to savor
Ig Nobel Prize winner Marcus Byrne has a new book called Dance of the Dung Beetles. It can please and enlighten anyone—human or beetle or both (Beatle)—who ever has contact with with dance, dung, life, or the universe. The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize for biology and astronomy (a rare double-category win!) was awarded to Marie […]
Does leg length play a determinative role for success in ballet? [research study]
A unique 2009 research project quantified (for the first time) the changes in elevation angles of ballet dancers’ legs between 1946 and 2004. Now a new study has examined (again for the first time) leg-length in relation to selected ballet performance indicators. “The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between leg […]
The analgesic effects of dancing in synch (study)
Can dancing to PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ in sync with other dancers act as a kind of ‘analgesic ’ – by raising your threshold to pain? A 2016 research project from the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Oxford, UK, suggested that the answer might be ‘Yes’. A suite of somewhat painful [*see notes] […]
The BioBlitz Dance Tutorial
The Official BioBlitz Dance Tutorial is a tutorial on how to do the official BioBlitz dance. Watch, if you are of a mind to: One of the video’s chief merits is its first two thirds, which shows a man standing in a forest. One of its other chief merits is its final third, which does not. (Thanks […]
Can a bird use a human as an artistic tool?
Can a bird use a human as a tool to express its artistic ideas? Discuss. This performance is by Compagnie Le Guetteur – Luc Petton. Thanks to Laura Bassett for bringing it to our attention.
Multifunction baby carrier exercise device (new patent)
“The care of a newborn baby is virtually a 24 hour a day job, leaving very little time for new parents to engage in traditional exercise. The lack of exercise runs contrary to traditional and prevailing medical opinions.” Fortunately, inventor Scott Krass of San Diego, California, has invented (and just received a US patent for) […]
A dance of the slime molds
Tchaikovsky and Science In Seconds and some slime molds team up, sort of, to present this pasticcio performance: BONUS: Slime mold delights, for bread enthusiasts
Winds overpower ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ competition
This year’s Dance Your Ph.D competition produced a winner: Uma Nagendra (pictured here) of the University of Georgia, USA, for her dance about some effects of winds on plants: [vimeo]107412178[/vimeo] John Bohannon, who founded and runs the competition, provides details about all the high finishers, in Science magazine. The list of runners-up, with links to each of those videos, appears […]