Night Moves: Spooky Action @ Miro Studio

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Night Moves: Spooky Action @ Miro Studio

POSTED: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 8:30 PM
Filed Under: Arts | Night Moves



I've always loved the idea of science and art colliding like two supernovas. Like our own CHF's exhibits or National Geographic's photographs, it just feels nice and interdisciplinary when the two get together.

In Miro Dance Theatre's dance performance Spooky Action, the company is doing just that. Inspired by their time at the Fermilab national accelerator laboratory, choreographer Amanda Miller and her troupe see quantum entanglement not as a boring, esoteric subject you'd read about in a textbook — but as a love affair between two particles.

Viewing it this way allows scientific ideas to spread to the masses — or if not to the masses, at least to people who wouldn't usually read up on physics. Rebecca Davis Dance Co. recently worked on a similar concept — but instead of focusing on the hard sciences, they found inspiration in economics — so I hope it's a growing trend. Perhaps someone can write a soundtrack to the Big Bang next?



Thu., March 19, 6:30 p.m., free, Miro Studio, Girard College, 2101 S. College Ave., 215-962-4773, mirodancetheater.org

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