"Talking about Music is like Dancing about Architecture" - steve martin

The 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Contest
aka "Dance your Ph.D."

The American Association for the Advancement of Science sponsored the project, in which contestants were asked to upload to YouTube a dance video which explained their doctoral thesis.

Thirty-six dances -- including solo ballet and circus spectacle -- had been submitted online. A panel of nine judges -- the three winners of the first "Dance Your Ph.D." contest, three scientists from Harvard University, and three artistic directors of the dance company Pilobolus -- scored the dances on their ability to bridge the art and science worlds.

The Winner:
Sue Lynn Lau chose classical ballet and highly kinetic party dancing as the way to interpret her Ph.D. thesis, "The role of vitamin D in beta-cell function." As The Nutcracker Suite lilts in the background, Lau, a graduate student from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, appears as the Sugarplum Fairy, delivering marshmallow glucose to four beta cell dancers. Meanwhile, a fifth dancer flings and twirls around the stage--representing the sunlight required for vitamin D biosynthesis.

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/1120/2

see: http://gonzolabs.org/dance/contestants/ for a list of all winners in various categories, their thesis, and a link to their YouTube video.