I'm excited about seeing this program, which was inspired by Brian Greene's popular book "The Elegant Universe." This performance combines two of my passions: dance and science. And I'm very interested in seeing how Karole Armitage and her dancers synthesize quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity.
Each program (Friday, May 30th and Saturday, May 31st) consists of a performance followed by a discussion featuring Armitage, composer Lukas Ligeti and physicist Jim Gates (May 30th) and Brian Greene (May 31st).
Background Videos for Armitage Program
Brian Greene gives a presentation about superstring theory at TED:
James Gates in an interview about Super Symmetry on PBS:
There are no dance videos of this upcoming performance, but you can watch a handful of profiles of dancers from Armitage Gone! Dance on their YouTube channel including this one of Mei-Hua.
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Doug Fox on May 16, 2008 7:02 AM
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I'm the managing editor at Science & the City at the New York Academy of Sciences - we just produced a podcast on this event, an you might find it interesting. Here's the link: http://www.nyas.org/snc/podcastdetail.asp?id=1787
We've done a cool slide show of Gate's Adinkras project too.
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I'm the managing editor at Science & the City at the New York Academy of Sciences - we just produced a podcast on this event, an you might find it interesting. Here's the link: http://www.nyas.org/snc/podcastdetail.asp?id=1787
We've done a cool slide show of Gate's Adinkras project too.
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