In 2009, Redshift Productions teamed up with Physicist Itai Cohen and Choreographer Maren Waldman to develop Dance of Scales, an interactive performance expressing concepts studied in Dr. Cohen’s Lab. The piece was inspired by Cohen’s research on the movement of particles at different length scales. The one hour performance took the audience through the ways particles move from Brownian motion (movement of the very, very small) to movement at the human scale. Cohen’s lively demonstrations were woven into the dance, and the dancers became expressions and examples of his concepts.
Kalay Mordock, Maren Waldman, Holly Hibbert, and Sarabeth Matilsky in Dance of Scales
Kalay Mordock, Maren Waldman, Sarabeth Matilsky and Holly Hibbert expressing inertia and viscocity among particles in Dance of Scales.
Maren Waldman dances a pas de deux with a video of a fruit fly shot at 3000 frames per second.
Itai Cohen explains the movement of fruit flies while Maren dances
Watch the full performance of Dance of Scales at the 2010 Light in Winter Festival.