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My name is Alex Smith. For Mr. Jenkins 11th grade Honors English class, we had to do an end of the year research project. I decided to be completely random, and research interpretive dance. I wanted to answer the question if interpretive is completely useful, or a complete waste of time. I found out that there are many opinions about it, but most of what I found was that it is a beautiful way to express your feelings. Not just through interpretive dance, but any dance. I really enjoyed seeing both sides of the argument, and made many conclusions of my own.



Visualizations of Interpretive Dance

- Sunday, April 26, 2009

Jess Hemerly expresses to us how having visuals are becoming a new “literacy” for understanding (Hemerly). He tells about a video directed by Robert Allan Weiss for Stanford’s Department of Chemistry in 1971. The video is still reenacted and shown to students today! It is a mixture of Protein Synthesis and “Jesus Christ Superstar” (Hemerly). He goes on to say that although interpretive dance can be “absurd”, it still seems to make the facts that are hard to learn, stick a little easier (Hemerly).

I enjoyed reading this article. It showed that dance is not only used for expression, but can be useful in teaching difficult topics. If it can help show how photosynthesis works, then it’s obviously doing something right. I’m quite curious to see how the video really does show how photosynthesis works, through an interpretive dance.

Hemerly, Jess. "Visualizations through Interpretive Dance." 21 Apr 2008 1. 2 Apr 2009 .

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