On the October 9th, there was one event called "The Cardiac Dance: The Spiral of Life" in the CNSI building. The title captured my sight because I was interested in the combination of heart and dancing. I was surprised to see how the heart and the dance related to the medical field. Even though I am not from the south campus at UCLA, I was looking forward to it.
Dr. Buckberg was the one who introduced the topic and gave us explanations of the cardiac dance. Before the actual video of dancing, I was amazed at how people used art and science together, for example, building a spiral-shaped staircase inside of a tower in Barcelona. The main idea was to "return to nature" which connects to the "heart". Paco Torrent Guasp was an artist, scientist, and also an architect who made wonderful buildings and structures. While he studied and explored the spirals and folding, the idea of simplicity of nature came to his mind which later became the root of "heart".
The cardiac dance represents the spirals of life. The heart is made of just one single rope that you can fold and wrap to make a heart shape. The normal conical and dilated sphere together make the shape of football. The video depicts how the heart narrows, shortens, lengthens, widens, twists, and untwists. The dancers were holding the wide string or rope that symbolizes the heart. The cardiac dance itself was a beauty of art and science. While I was watching the video, the materials we learned about the combination of art and science helped my understanding of how nature art and science were working together like assembling the puzzle. The following quote was the most memorable part of this event, "Nature is simple, scientists are complicated." Moreover, Dr. Buckberg also commented that the heart surgery operation is successful using this idea of twisting and untwisting. Sometimes, we have to believe how the nature provides easy and simple ways to human beings.
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