HARMONY OF THE SPHERES: DANCE, ASTRONOMY, MUSIC AND MATHEMATICS
Creating the first planetary dome show featuring historic connections between the arts and sciences.
The New York Baroque Dance Company and Pajarito Environmental Education Center and Planetarium will produce a 25 minute 360 degree dome show, highlighting connections between dance and science, based on research of ballet’s origins with content reaching from the Greeks to the Baroque when dancing masters discussed the Golden Ratio, Kepler, and the harmony of the spheres.
Geometric patterns in Baroque choreographies were full of meaning and poetic metaphor. These patterns could be seen during the performance of the dancers or they could be seen in the very notation of the dance. Dances reflected geometrical patterns thought to imitate the motion of the stars and planets. It was believed that the motion of the cosmos affected man’s very being.
Longitudinal lines of the galactic coordinate system.
The dome show will display dancers of the NYBDC with youth preprofessional dancers, targeting youth through adult audiences from arts and science sectors. The project will be produced and evaluated in New Mexico and exhibited around the US and internationally. Catherine Turocy of NYBDC and Mariel McEwan, videographer, with ARTS Lab Innovating Digital Technology, Dr. Peter Pesic (history of music), and Dr. John McGraw, Astronomer, are key inividuals involved in the project.
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