3925

Christine von Renesse

Bridges

2020

In this workshop, participants will experience salsa rueda dancing and ask questions about possible mathematical connections. In salsa rueda, couples dance the same moves while standing in a circle, often involving partner changes. We can represent some of the basic dance moves using star polygons which allows us to prove conjectures about the dancers’ movements and partner meetings. We can also use results from graph theory to start answering difficult questions about dance movements new to salsa rueda.