When Gollon was made a Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the prestigious Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, he had to mix with some of the world’s leading thinkers, working with them on the Being Human project, looking at what it means to be human in the 21st century. He was the first non-academic to be invited to be a Fellow. The leading academics looked a little straight-laced and were quite intimidating to him at first, so Gollon decided to take them to a few local pubs, ending up in one with a large dance floor. At this point all formalities fell away and the academics displayed some surprisingly spectacular dance moves, which Gollon did justice to in a series of Dancing Philosophers.
