Hat of Invisibility
Summer 2006, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
During a class on convex geometry, I proved Caratheodory's Theorem (on points inside convex hulls being affine combinations of a finite set of points) in a sarong. This was taken for the Sarong Theorem Archive.
Here I have just introduced the piece of mathematical notation I like to call "the hat of invisibility" to my students.
Figure of Order Two
Fall 2007, The Putney School
A group of my sutdents were investigating function composition and inverses through a simple form of dance based on traditional folk dances. Here they are exploring a reflection of their square: an operation of order two.
Playing With Sticks
Fall 2007, The Putney School
Based on an exercise that Kevin and Erin O'Keefe from Circus Minimus taught me, the exercise here asks students to collarborate on forming geometric shapes with sticks that are very hard to hold on to. The students in this picture are trying to figure out how to build tetrahedra.
Hollow Wings
Spring 2004, Amherst College
This was my first costume design project. We were asked to make (mostly) "surprise" costumes for performers in a movement improvisation class. They then used the costumes as the beginning of an outdoor improvisation exercise.
The costume here is a rough, cotton dress with a set of coat-hanger wings and ribbons attached.
A Fairy Godmother
Spring 2005, Amherst College
This is a production shot of The Edges That Remain, a fairy tale based on academia and mathematics that was my undergraduate senior thesis in playwriting, choreography, and design. (One could call it an undergraduate senior thesis in overcommitment.) It was written and designed around viewing mathematics as a metaphor for love and life and using a blackbox theater as one large, multi-dimensional blackboard.