Brain waves festival

 
Based on the Canadian Barn Dance. Part of Brainwaves Science Ceilidh, with all dances with a twist of neuroscience, at the Edinburgh International Science Festival 2015 (at Summerhall). Find out more: www.scienceceilidh.com
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Neuroscience Dances

We developed a suite of Neuroscience themed dances especially for our sell-out Brainwaves Ceilidh at Edinburgh International Science Festival 2015 (Evaluation summary is here) and the British Neuroscience Association conference. 

 

 

This included a new Scottish Ceilidh-American Contradance Fusion dance, the Action Potential, all about how nerves transmit information. 

We also visited Rene's Sleep Lab in Edinburgh to find out more about brainwaves and sleep, and adapted a dance changing time signatures into the Sleepy Masquerade making you feel progessively tired. 

Finally, we have our favourites dances, the Canadian Brain Dance (see above) and the Flying Photon, which you can see the steps, explanation, and a video of some researchers going through the dance below! 

More dances and the resources to come, watch this space. 

What do you do when you have a taster session with 7 dancers for a 8 person dance? You join in of course!! The Flying Photon Dance Come find out more & join in: www.scienceceilidh.com/light