A ballet inspired by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and its challenging equation (e=mc2) will be premiered in London in May to mark the Einstein festivities this year, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Monday.
The ballet, called Constant Speed, will be the highlight of the Rambert Dance Company’s spring tour, to be performed at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
The work is the inaugural choreographic piece from Rambert artistic director Mark Baldwin and was commissioned by the Institute of Physics.
A professor of physics is working with Baldwin to advise on the technical aspects of the work.
Peter Main, director of education at the Institute of Physics, said dance is a ”perfect medium” for expressing Einstein’s ideas as it involved space, time and movement.
The ballet will be performed to the music composed in 1905 by Franz Lehar.
”It’s very bouncy music that fizzles and pops, so it fits well with Einstein’s theories”, said Baldwin.
The work was commissioned to mark Einstein Year in 2005 — 100 years after Albert Einstein published three seminal research papers that changed scientific thinking about the universe forever. — Sapa-DPA