NEW HAVEN — Particle physicist Sarah Demers and professional ballet dancer Emily Coates want to challenge the assumption that science and art as disciplines can’t coexist together, that one or the ...

Yale faculty members Emily Coates, the director of dance studies and associate professor in theater studies, and Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics at Yale, discussed ...

Science and art are colliding on the William & Mary campus as part of a performance that will be staged this spring. Aura Curiatlas Physical Theatre is developing its production of “A Life With No ...

Ever wondered about the science behind a pirouette or a grande jeté? Perhaps you always wanted to know how a dancer is able to perfectly execute a chaîné turn? A new video from Super Deluxe explains ...

A consortium of dancers, scientists and educators stand ready to deflate some common stereotypes people hold, such as physics being boring and only for men, that dancers must be young and science and ...

Duane Pontius Sr. was a Renaissance man. He was a physicist who played Bach on a grand piano in his dining room and made sculptures of ballet dancers. Pontius, of Gardendale, died on May 26. He was 75 ...

Gilles Jobin, the Swiss dancer and choreographer, did what was almost unthinkable — he mixed dance and physics, to create Quantum, a performance that celebrates the dance of the universe through the m ...

Choreographer Elizabeth Streb pushes the boundaries of Newtonian physics—with dance. In her show Forces, dancers fly, fall, and collide in mid-air. No wonder the "action architect" has her share of ...

The intersectionality of dance and physics will be explored in the Yale Quantum Institute’s third nontechnical talk cosponsored by the Franke Program for Science and Humanities. The event, called ...

“It was a shame the discussion was so focused on the extremes,” was a recurring comment among people who attended a recent panel discussion on interdisciplinary science that I went to. Many of the ...