I just received a mass email about an IRIS workshop, that includes:

"The first evening features an after-dinner talk on Earth science visualization through immersive computer graphics and modern dance."

I ain't going, and John V. is a chair of this workshop, and I am rather curious about this. Crap, I've spent years getting better at fault/fold visualization, and now if I want to present this I'll have to learn to dance? What kind of dance? I took ballroom dancing classes when I live in New Orleans and I was just terrible at it. When I make an animation of slices through structure and earthquakes, does it now have to be split-screen with someone interpreting this through modern dance? Having to learn a new word, "transformative", and learn how to dance in a 1 year period is just too much.

Pray, do tell more.
Chris