A relatively new performance by Barbora Látalová called Fg = G [(m1m2)/r²] was chosen for the prestigious competition of Czech dance art Czech Dance Platform and little and adult viewers could see it on Saturday afternoon on 17th April 2010 on the stage in Ponec.
Two dancers dance like two objects in the gravity field. They are drawn by gravity and magnetic force and they examine what is in their surroundings. Newton's laws are confirmed and they are introduced with a funnier and digestible form than we were taught at basic school. Maybe this performance will explain the formulas of physical quantities to those people who did not understand it at school.
Barbora Látalová a Zdenka Brungot Svíteková have the possibility to find answers to various questions of very real space where surprising things happen during the performance that lasts for almost one hour. It is full of colour lights, polystyrene balls, various electronic and classic melodies and various sounds. Musician David Hlaváč is a very important person in this performance. He accompanies the dancers, he tells them when to start and helps them whirl white balls in their physical demarcated (by boxes with colour beams) space. He is not only a talented musician but also an elemental person who enriches "boring" physical phenomena with humour.
The rest of researchers takes care of fun in dance about physics including a light technician who is available when something disconnects and stops to work. The dancers do not manage that. Blowing, waving with hard boards, rolling, jumping and clamping – all these actions unbind motion and they whirl windmills. There is apparent interconnection of music, dance, light and acting parts and mutual connection of four performers has a very coherent effect and viewers really thing that things being solved on the stage is a wonderful and colourful play with educational nature.
Children and later even adults are engaged in the performance. Everybody has fun and laughs. Everyone in the hall witness switching on fluorescent lamps without connecting it to electricity as a bonus. Jan Beneš is simply a magician or a talented physicist. Another dance performance where parents can take their children after a Saturday lunch. They will dance and learn physics at the same time. The authors killed two birds with one stone.
Translation: Eliška Hulcová
Josef Bartos
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