A few weeks ago when one of my friends was in town, we decided to check out the Musée Rodin. Auguste Rodin is one of my favorite sculptors, and so I was excited to visit a museum that was solely dedicated to his work. It was a wonderful experience, as it was an intimate way to explore a single artist. It is set in the Hôtel Biron, where Rodin lived toward the end of his life. Some of his sculptures are also displayed throughout the extensive garden. One of the rooms included his late sculptural experiments on dance movement studies. As a dance minor, I have always been fascinated by the link between dance and the brain. Dance demands both attention and memory skills, and significant neuronal growth seen in structures such as the insula and cingulate gyrus demonstrate the beneficial role dance can play in cognitive improvement.
