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characteristics of the foundational blocks of cellular structure? You are a versatile artist and your works are rich of reminders to scientific concepts, as in the interesting Movement phrase based on the Fibonacci Sequence. How do you consider the relationship between artistic research and scientific method? In particular, how does in your opinion art could be used to explain science and vice versa? Allegra Fuller Synder of UCLA said of dance “Dance is more than art. It is one of the most powerful tools for fusing the split between the two functions of the brain – the fusing of the logical with the intuitive, the fusing of the analytical perceptions with the sensorial perceptions” I agree with Ms. Synder and think that dance is a discipline that requires a constant shared exchange between thinking and doing. In my current pursuit, I am trying to activate the body and not the brain as the impetus of thinking, to create a learning experience of thinking through doing. Embodying knowledge provides a tactile experience of the acquired knowledge and the knowledge from experience provides a richer understanding of the (in my case) scientific principle. I believe that there is reciprocity in learning from science and learning from art and that the discoveries acquired bare influence on one another. As a tactile learner, I need the experience of doing to understand to my best ability theoretical knowledge. It is not enough to grasp abstraction and so my fusion of art and science is how I express my curiosity and desire to learn more about abstract scientific principles like quantum mechanics. I think it is also important to say that I think dancing bodies are an expression of physics. The impact of gravity, rotation and momentum on the physical body is an example of science. I