Rambert Dance Company: Dance cosies up to science

The Telegraph:

The gap between science and the humanities, as identified in C P Snow’s celebrated lecture The Two Cultures, has in recent years been conscientiously bridged: Ian McEwan writes a novel about global warming, while Brian Cox popularises physics for the layman. Somewhat surprisingly, however, it is in the field of contemporary dance that science has become seriously voguish. Last year, Wayne McGregor’s FAR fashioned movement out of ideas from the Age of Enlightenment, while in 2009 David Bintley’s E=mc² took on the theory of relativity. Not exactly Romeo and Juliet.

Indeed, the marriage between science and dance would seem about as likely as that between Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. But opposites attract, as the physicists know, and it is perhaps not so odd that scientific thought should intrigue the contemporary choreographer.

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