Protein dance
From Atlas Obscura
In 1971, Stanford Students Did an Interpretive Dance to Demonstrate Protein Synthesis
“tRNA!”
In 1971, a group of 200 Stanford University students performed a rather strange interpretive dance. Wearing bright leotards and body paint, with balloons tied to their heads, they pranced and rolled around in a field. It wasn’t a seance or cult ritual. It wasn’t a social gathering. These students were creating a scientific educational film about the cellular process of protein synthesis.
This approximately 13-minute film Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level, captures the students’ choreographed dance, visually representing the moving dynamic steps of protein formation from a strand of RNA. A couple of Stanford medical students came up with the grand idea, recruited the help of modern dance students, and shot the entire film in a day. Majority of the dancers in the “Protein Jive Sutra” were untrained volunteers.
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In 1971, Stanford Students Did an Interpretive Dance to Demonstrate Protein Synthesis
“tRNA!”
In 1971, a group of 200 Stanford University students performed a rather strange interpretive dance. Wearing bright leotards and body paint, with balloons tied to their heads, they pranced and rolled around in a field. It wasn’t a seance or cult ritual. It wasn’t a social gathering. These students were creating a scientific educational film about the cellular process of protein synthesis.
This approximately 13-minute film Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level, captures the students’ choreographed dance, visually representing the moving dynamic steps of protein formation from a strand of RNA. A couple of Stanford medical students came up with the grand idea, recruited the help of modern dance students, and shot the entire film in a day. Majority of the dancers in the “Protein Jive Sutra” were untrained volunteers.
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