Viewpoints Conference Math and Folk Dance Presentation
About two weeks ago I gave a talk titled Patterns and Mathematics in Traditional Folk Dances at the Viewpoints Grand Reunion Conference. The presentation is the final result of a combination of a workshop on math and contradancing that I taught with my colleague Amy Cann, lots of late night conversations and thinking while preparing to teach that class and some communication with a mailing list full of dance callers. In the presentation I spent most of my time talking about contradancing, though there are some stuff in the end about maypole dances, sword dances and waltzes. Since I promised at least several people a copy of my slides I’ve decided to just put them up here.
Slides for Math and Traditional Dance talk at Viewpoints 2008 (12MB PDF file)
There are several important caveats regarding these slides.
- The file is a 12 MB PDF file because of a good number of pictures and diagrams.
- There are spelling mistakes and typos. I can’t fix them because the original Keynote file is 100 miles away on another computer.
- This is the 60+ slide version along with many slides that I did not actually present. So it should be more understandable without my endless ranting. The last bits are, however, still quite incomprehensible with the slides alone.
- The bibliography is not actually done yet. I’ll post it here once I have it done.
Currently I’m trying to turn the presentation into a paper. If you have any suggestions or ideas or whatever, send me a note!
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