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Aperiodic SciDance Performance will be at Trinity Centre

The free show at Trinity Centre fuses maths and physics with Dance

Maths, science and dance come together this summer in a fusion of SciDance being performed in Bristol and Bath as part of an event around aperiod patterns.

South West Dance Theatre have teamed up with the Maths and Physics Departments at the University of Bristol. Together, they have created Aperiodic. It’s an evening of dance based on the University’s research on aperiodic patterns. These are patterns that never quite repeat, distinguishing them from random arrangements but without the regularly repeating pattern of things like tessellated squares or triangles.

The dance performances are part of a fortnight of art exhibitions and events in July stemming from the University’s aperiod maths research.

The first half of the hour-long performance takes audiences to Muslim temples in the ancient middle east, Kepler’s tessellating of pentagons in 17th century Germany and 1970s England to the work of Roger Penrose. It comes to end with the first true aperiodic monotile in 2020s Yorkshire.

The second half of the performance sees aperiodic patterns in their real world, with an exploration of quantum physics, the realm of atoms and electrons and 2D materials.

Research fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, Sean Dewar, will open each performance with a 15 minute tour of the mathematical ideas feeding into the dance.

A workshop will be taking place ahead of the performance for those who would like to try a dance approach to maths and physics for themselves.

Aperiodic will be at Trinity Centre on 11 July 2024 and The Mission Theatre in Bath on 26 July 2024

To book Aperiodic at the Trinity Centre, visit: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-trinity-centre/thu-11-jul-aperiodic-109675#e109675

For more about South West Dance: Facebook.com/SouthWestDanceTheatre

Cast
Silvia Orazzo
Seba Morales Castillo
Katarzyna Niznik
Anna Davis

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