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 ...

Age 40 is a little old to be taking your first ballet class. But it was at that age that Ken Laws, a physics professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., joined his young children in their ballet ...

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 ...

Class is held in a dance studio equipped with a white board, and students are tasked with calculating their choreography and dancing their equations. “The Physics of Dance” is run by Sarah Demers from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. They call her the Punk Ballerina. For her 1978 choreographic debut, Karole Armitage, ...

Two Yale professors thrive where calculation meets choreography. A course first offered at Yale University in 2011 is cross-listed in an unusual combination of departments: physics and theatre arts.