Event 1: The Cardiac dance

My first event was The Cardiac Dance, The Spiral of Life presented by Dr. Gerald Buckberg. It was a great pleasure to see a dance performance that combined science and art perfectly and also related our class topic closely.

The poster of the event.

Dr. Gerald Buckberg, an experienced and prominent cardiologist, has used his creativity into this cardiac dance for educational and health purposes. He is always dedicated to inspire other scientist to use art to explain science to public.

 
The cardiac dance consists of three parts. The first one showed a harmonic movement of cardiac system and told us briefly how the heart functions work, the second part showed specifically what the heart movement looked like when a heart attack happened, and the third part showed the reconstruction of heart after surgery. All the dancers moved accordingly and twisted to present the heart movement. I really enjoy the dance performance because the dancers let science reborn in an artistic way. If Dr. Buckberg just gave the presentation through his oral, then I believed most of students will easily get bored. However, the dance and the music attracted our attention to it.

After I have attended this event, I understand the topic of two culture deeper. Science and Art are never be apart, instead they are closely tied with each other. I really recommend my peers to look at this video online to enjoy the juxtaposition of science(reality) and art(creativity).









Me, my peers, and Dr. Buckberg.

Resources:
Image by self at event. Oct 9. 2013
Image by peers at event. Oct 9. 2013
Merkowitz, Jennifer Bernard. "The Cardiac Dance-The Spirals of Life." 2007. Web. Nov 24. 2013. <https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap:10:0::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:81726>
Katie Pence. "College of Medicine Alumnus Develops 'Arttistic' Way to Teach About Heart Function." July 2007. Web. Nov 24. 2013. <http://healthnews.uc.edu/publications/findings/?/5109/5110/>
“Viewfinder – Cardiac Dance – The Spirals of Life.” cetConnect. PBS, 8 Feb. 2010. Web. 3 Nov. 2013. <http://www.cetconnect.org/video/viewfinder-cardiac-dance-%E2%80%93-spirals-life>.