Lehmer’s Dance – a lecture performance

Concept: Roos van Berkel in collaboration with mathematician Tom Verhoeff
Choreography: Roos van Berkel
Scenography: Marion Tränkle
Sound compositions: Ivo Bol
Performed by: Bjorn Bakker, Roos van Berkel, Fons Dhossche, Liah Frank, Evgenia Rubanova, Amber Smits, Marion Tränkle, Tom Verhoeff and Andrei Voicu

Supported by: Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Nationale Wiskunde Dagen, Platform Wiskunde Nederland, Stimuleringsregeling Eigentijdse Dans, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Academie voor Theater en Dans.

A lecture performance about the power of ‘minimal change’. A mathematician, choreographer, scenographer, composer and six dancers show different series in which changes take place according to certain rules. Specific sequences in movement, image and sound bring Lehmer’s theorem to the material world. The concept of ecology is made tangible: every change of neighbor is a change in the entire system.

2019

Aug 28thKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, A’dam
April 23rdNederlands Mathematisch Congres, Valkenswaard
Fen 2ndNationale Wiskunde Dagen, Valkenswaard