At STREB Action Lab, Dance and Physics Collide
23:29 minutes
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 scientist fans, among them, big-thinking particle physicist Lisa Randall.
Click on the video below to see a few scenes from Forces:
Segment Guests
Elizabeth Streb
Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer and founder of STREB Extreme Action Company in New York, New York.
Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall is a physics professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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