“All dance is about time, space, and light,” says Mark Baldwin, who, as artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, choreographed Constant Speed, a dance inspired by the concepts of special relativity and Brownian motion. The dance was commissioned by the UK’s Institute of Physics in celebration of Einstein Year, as the World Year of Physics 2005 is known in some countries. It opens in London on 24 May.
At the start of Constant Speed, “the dancers are dressed in white. In the end, they are all colors, as if pushed through a prism,” says Baldwin. The dance is “packed full of movement,” he adds. “Imagine the hips are some kind of molecule that is out of control, so the body can lunge in all directions. It’s a driving, muscular piece.”
The dance is “hanging what we hope will be an important piece of art on a scientific stimulus,” says Jerry...
