My youngest daughter, a second year university student, recently went to her sorority’s annual house dance. A week before the event she still did not have a date. Out of sheer desperation, she finally asked someone who she recently met while camping with friends. Little did she know that this young man was not just a nice guy, but also an excellent social ‘ballroom’ dancer. The problem was that my daughter cannot dance and she wasn’t interested in learning to do so. However, the young man ended up teaching her how to dance and she later posted a picture on Instagram of her and the young man with the following quote from Samuel Beckett to demonstrate how she was taught to dance: “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order”… […]
What makes our LEAP unlike any other? Part 2: We subscribe to the dance between art and science
