Gravity Wave (2020)
I saw the Pique Collective performing at an outdoor concert in Dundalk, MD when I came up with the idea. I'm familiar with the venue, and 99.99% of the time they have pop music groups, the kind you can dance too. The audience appreciated their performance, but I wondered what if they were to perform something, that while modern, had an edgy repetitive rhythm aspect. So with Gravity Wave, I concocted that ostinato pattern that just droned on and on, like a mantra. The trouble was, I got caught up in it too :)
I liked the way the choreography fit the theme.
It started with the representation of objects in the universe being acted upon by gravity,
in the sense that they were being pulled down.
The next part where they were moving their arms like the hands of a clock was representative too.
Gravity is an integral part of the space-time continuum.
Then following parts of the choreography suggest the influence of gravity on our daily lives.
We’re so used to gravity that we don’t even notice it, but it governs everything we do.
Finally, it seemed as if we were observing a ritual dance performed by divine spirits,
that paid tribute to the laws of the universe.
Though it may appear that way to observers on Earth, the galaxies of the universe are not random.
Gravity holds the university together and gives it its shape (string theory).
Without gravity, the universe would have achieved a state of entropy billions of years ago.
- Just a note, the notion of space-time was first proposed by Hermann Minkowski,
one of Albert Einstein’s teachers.
It started with the representation of objects in the universe being acted upon by gravity,
in the sense that they were being pulled down.
The next part where they were moving their arms like the hands of a clock was representative too.
Gravity is an integral part of the space-time continuum.
Then following parts of the choreography suggest the influence of gravity on our daily lives.
We’re so used to gravity that we don’t even notice it, but it governs everything we do.
Finally, it seemed as if we were observing a ritual dance performed by divine spirits,
that paid tribute to the laws of the universe.
Though it may appear that way to observers on Earth, the galaxies of the universe are not random.
Gravity holds the university together and gives it its shape (string theory).
Without gravity, the universe would have achieved a state of entropy billions of years ago.
- Just a note, the notion of space-time was first proposed by Hermann Minkowski,
one of Albert Einstein’s teachers.