The Cosmic Dancers: Exploring the Physics of Science Fiction

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One: The full-tilt chaos that ensued at the San Diego Sports Arena the seconds after Klaus Nomi’s “Wayward Sisters” ended as Morrissey and his band walked onto a stage for the first time in America. As Kalakshetra graduates and trained under the best artists in this field, they share 20 years of teaching and performing experience.

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. Yet it is also the contemporary home of luminous and, dare I say, revolutionary attempts to rethink the Earth and evolution within the new context of other planetary histories. The cosmic dance is not random motion but is beautifully choreographed and the movements obey laws of nature. Even more than plate-tectonics, an ‘open system’ view of the Earth that recognizes the continuum between terrestrial and extra-terrestrial dynamics threatens the Victorian foundations of classical geology. If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of lead dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.The most fundamental laws of physics are the conservation laws–conservation of mass, conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. Gravity is an attractive force, it is weak relative to other forces and it acts over long distances. February’s giant fireball over the Pacific, July’s fusillade against Jupiter, and December’s breathtaking near-miss—were all cram sessions in the new Earth science being shaped by comparative planetology and the neo-catastrophist reinterpretation of the stratigraphic record. Legend has it that the two didn’t see eye to eye on stage direction, and the budding friendship was snuffed out before it even began.

Clark’s collaborators range from The Fall to Leigh Bowery, from artists Sarah Lucas and Peter Doig to non-professional dancers. Two: The moment when all 14,000 people in the Inglewood Forum realized that the guy walking towards Morrissey while he was singing “Cosmic Dancer” was David Bowie. the recent documentary Dalai Lama Renaissance, and stars in the 2009 documentary The Quantum Activist. It is a lesson, of course, that many geologists, as well as geographers and historians, have great difficulty accepting.This is a familiar and ancient maxim that recognises the mundane art of living and our connection to the world around us under a spectacular starry sky. Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer was an immersive experience exploring dance, design, art, fashion and music. The kind of book you can keep on your coffee table and genuinely find yourself interested in opening to any random page. Check out the range of classes they offer for everyone from beginners to advanced level dancers via classes page, find out what's coming up soon on the Events page, or learn more about our Productions.

All scientific equations are mathematical representations or precise quantification of the action between particles and forces.

Finally, the cometary astronomers Victor Clube (Oxford) and William Napier (Edinburgh) have developed in the course of several dozen articles and books the case for a ‘microstructure of terrestrial catastrophism’ that includes devastating meteoroid storms every few thousand years. On dark summer nights, away from city lights, I love to stargaze and imagine that I am dancing with the stars.

The Hindu deity, Shiva, in one of his best-known forms, is the Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer, and maybe a familiar image to some when he performs his dynamic cosmic dance. The dance is fluid, the movement continuous, the partners (atoms) changing positions at every opportunity.

This simple statement highlights our interconnectedness with the universe on every level of existence and how the cosmos is always dancing. These events made 1994 something of a watershed in public awareness of the Earth’s vulnerability to comet and asteroid bombardment. The details, print, collections, quotes, all is well orchestrated, and even ME who dives deep into public domain old art (public domain review is my favorite online journal! It’s through astrology that we have our early understanding of the solar system and its connection to us.