IJK
Friday, May 30, 2008, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
In this special presentation with the New Victory Theater, French theater troupe Compagnie 111 presented IJK, a witty, physics-inspired showcase of sonic juggling. Cleverly named for mathematics' designators of direction in a 3-D world, the show explores space and movement in a balancing act of light and dark that weaves whimsy with geometry.
Following the performance, Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute illuminated connections between the mathematical movement of the acrobats onstage and the science of movement of large bodies — like planets, comets and galaxies — careening and spinning through space.
Participants:
Heidi Hammel is a noted planetary scientist. Currently, she is senior research scientist and codirector of research at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the University of Hawaii, she spent nearly nine years as a principal research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.Venue
The New Victory TheaterThis event produced in collaboration with
New Victory Theater
