Neuroscience meets modern dance

Regular readers know how much I enjoy the Saturday Financial Times. Here’s an interesting article on how the Royal Ballet’s new resident choreographer is using neuroscience as inspiration.

Key quote:

The result, performed by his Random Dance company, which he founded at the age of 22, is a dance that will “look at the body from inside out”. McGregor has worked with 12 neuroscientists from around the world to examine the nature of kinaesthetic intelligence, producing a series of computerised “choreographic agents” from which he has drawn inspiration for the stage.

Jim