An initiative to reimagine mathematics through the body — a practice, a book, and a body of research exploring how mathematical ideas can be experienced through movement. Founded by Janani Suresh Ram.
Move Through Math is a discovery — that mathematics is already woven into the way we move, balance, turn, reach and relate to space.
Rooted in Bharatanatyam, the practice treats the body not as an illustration of mathematics, but as a place where mathematical ideas can be experienced. Geometry, symmetry, number, rhythm, pattern and transformation are not simply explained; they are felt, enacted and explored through movement.
Founded by dancer, researcher and educator Janani Suresh Ram, Move Through Math began with a question in the dance studio and has grown into a book, a workshop practice and an ongoing body of research at the intersection of movement, mathematics, education and embodied cognition.
Part / whole
Space / relationship
Continuous / unbounded
Pattern / repetition
Mathematics doesn't always begin with a number.
A Handbook of Learning Through Movement
Designed for ages 5–10, this book transforms mathematical ideas into movement, play and embodied exploration, bringing concepts to life through the body.
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Move Through Math is grounded in ongoing research at the intersection of mathematics, embodied cognition, performance and education.
A collaboration with musician and live-coding artist Alex McLean, exploring Bharatanatyam as a small-data system — a highly structured practice where rhythm, gesture and choreography generate complex possibilities from a finite vocabulary.
The project brings Bharatanatyam into dialogue with live coding, pattern generation and gesture-based e-textile interfaces, asking how the body itself can function as a knowledge system rather than simply as a source of data.
Developed for Hibrides 2026.
Move Through Math workshops bring together mathematics, movement and Bharatanatyam to create hands-on experiences of mathematical thinking. From shapes and patterns to fractions, sequences and fractals, participants explore ideas through the body before putting them into words and symbols.
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Trained in Bharatanatyam and grounded in research, Janani spent years noticing the same structures surface in both the classical dance studio and the mathematics classroom — combinatorics in rhythmic footwork, symmetry in choreography, recursion in repeated motifs.
Move Through Math is the practice that grew out of that noticing: a way of teaching, performing and researching that treats the body as a legitimate site of mathematical knowledge — not a metaphor for it, but an instrument of it.