Improvisational Theater for Computing Scientists
From Computational Cell Biology
This project brings the creative practices of improvisational theatre into the training of research scientists with hopes of increasing scientists' capacities to be creative in their fields of expertise and to create new ways of seeing and doing education and research.
Performance and Science Links
- Improvisational Theater for Computing Scientists:[1]
Project home page
An introduction workshop to practice listening and speaking skills and creating group conversations
- Theater, Communication and Science: Work by Holly Gaff and Jenifer Alonzo [2]
Ms. Alonzo is working to develop a series of workshops which will help biologists and mathematicians better collaborate
Performance in Scientific Conferences
- American Society for Cell Biology, CellSlam [3]
A juried science slam held at the ASCB Annual Meeting; science in 3 minutes or less
- European Student Council Symposium [4]
Gijs Meeusen will present a very interactive workshop entitled Presenting Science using the theatre approach (2010).
Performance Groups
- Graduate Improv Troupe
- CSE Band[5]
A group of computer scientists have created a parody band
- Physics Review at UIUC [6]
Every year the Physics Department of UIUC holds a talent show in which students and faculty perform
A competition for scientists to create dance videos based on their graduate research
Performances, Scenes, Videos
- Dance of the ribosome, a youtube video [9]
References of interest
- Performing as Scientists: an improvisational approach to student research and faculty collaboration” BioScene, March 2006. Holmes and Qureshi [10]
- Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation. Educational Researcher 2004. R. Keith Sawyer
- Science at the Improv [11]
