WORKSHOP
Juggling and Science
Claudia Sodini
Curated by Jaya Ramchandani
Date: 15 NOVEMBER
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: INSTITUTE MENEZES BRAGANZA, PANJIM
Age Group: Open to All
Max Participants: 15
Is there more juggling in science or more science in juggling? Is centripetal force a juggler’s friend or foe? Is it possible to juggle a Newtonian pendulum, or the mathematical site swap sequence of your birthday?
By using circus art as an instrument for learning science and science as a tool for exploring practicing circus art, participants tried to answer these questions and offer some of their own. The workshop was both practical and theoretical, designed for beginners to face the challenges and complexity of juggling and to rethink their preconceptions of circus. Everyone had the chance to learn the basic pattern of juggling using balls, sticks, tubes, and everyday objects for research—and for play! As Albert Einstein said, “Play is the highest form of research.”
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Claudia Sodini
Claudia is a theatre, circus and science teacher. She has a degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology from the University of Pisa. In 2012, she decided to become a circus teacher and, thanks to the Second University Course in Motor Abilities in Circus Arts at the University of Rome, discovered the possibility of amalgamating Art and Science. Since then, all her theatre, circus and science courses for children have an interdisciplinary aspect. She gives workshops on mathematics, theatre, circus to children of all levels, both in Italy and abroad. She has collaborated with national and international science communicators such as Agnese De Rito (Maths and Games), Cesco Reale (Math games Festival), Lorenzo Schmidt (Psiquadro), Giovanni Filocamo (Matefitness), Andrea Vico (ToScience). She has also conducted lectures and workshops on “The Mathematics of Juggling” (at the international Math festival “Tutto è numero”). In 2011, she founded the production house K-Production.
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