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Dancing a Sea Turtle Thesis

By bioephemera on November 13, 2008.

My friend Kiki created this awesome choreography to represent her PhD thesis on sea turtle conservation. Kiki explains,

The dance opens with aerial dancers. The suspended fluidity of their movements embodies swimming in the ocean. The swinging and dancing couples are sea turtles mating. In the wild sea turtles breed and nest in the same time and place that shrimpers fish and so the sea turtles can get caught in the nets and drown. This is depicted by the dancing trio as well as the aerial dancer. As the female sea turtle dancer leaves her mate to swim ashore and nest she is caught by the shrimper in gray and dies.

By watching this video, you could help Kiki win the 2008 AAAS Science Dance Contest - so pass it on! There are only a few days left before the video with the largest number of views wins the prize.

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Goodness, when I first read your entry, I didn't realize you were quoting Kiki's description. For a second, I thought we had definitive proof that you know more about interpretive dance than me. That would have been devastating. Disaster averted.

I know NOTHING about dance. In fact, I think I'll be taking basic bellydance a third time in order to get my feet to move at the same time as my arms.