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Dance in the News: Dance Inspired By Theoretical Physics Not Such a Big Bang

By Erika Eichelberger

via Mother Jones

“…I was therefore a little mind-boggled by Three Theories, the piece that her company, Armitage Gone!, just performed in San Francisco following shows in Chicago and New York. According to the program notes, the piece ‘looks at the poetry underlying the pillars of 20th century theoretical physics: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics and String Theory.’ It goes on to explain that the choreography is derived from “scientific principles” and creates dance that, I kid you not, ‘reflect[s] the points of view held by physicists about the fundamental nature of the universe…’”

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