The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors QUANTUM

The Dance Centre presents Compagnie Gilles Jobin in QUANTUM as part of the Global Dance Connections series. Performances take place October 16 to 18 at 8 p.m. at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street).

QUANTUM is an exciting new work by Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin. The piece is inspired by his residency at CERN in Geneva, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

“My aim was to find ‘movement generators’, principles underlying movement and emanating from quantum physics, which I could adapt on our scale,” Jobin stated in a news release. “I realized that we are not piles of matter, but that our bodies are held together by a subtle balance of quantum forces. As a contemporary dancer, trained to work with the ground and used to contact, I found this a whole new paradigm.”

QUANTUM features six dancers exploring the forces that shape our world—matter, gravity, time, and space—as well as a kinetic installation of suspended industrial lamps created by German artist Julius von Bismarck. QUANTUM is set to a score by composer Carla Scaletti.

Tickets to QUANTUM are $22 to $30 and can be purchased online in advance.