STEM From Dance is using an unconventional medium to reveal the links between art and science.
, who says the pairing of artistic expression and STEM has its roots in her own childhood.
The latter drive led her to MIT, where she graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. “I loved how it changed how I viewed the world, like the world just became this set of problems I could choose to solve,” Beach says. “At the same time, it also felt unfair that there were no people of color, especially women of color, in my classes.”
“Dance has always been this place of refuge, this place of connection and warmth,” she says. “And those are the things that I wanted young people to feel when they learn about STEM.”But the connections the organization seeks to foster go deeper than that. Dance, with its intricate choreographies and demand for rigorous memorization and execution takes more than just freewheeling creativity.
The highlight of the programs is the creation of a dance piece that integrates STEM learning with choreography. The dancers have the chance to create costumes with circuits that control programmable lights that they wear while dancing, or to create animations that they can interact with during a dance routine. Ultimately, the goal is to blend the work of creating a dance routine with the work of coding or engineering and reveal the similarities between them.
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