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Dateline: 16th September, 2009
Rambert Celebrates Darwin Year Celebrating Darwin Year, Rambert Dance Company is to tour a new piece by artistic director Mark Baldwin, The Comedy of Change. Courtship dances, display and nature's use of camouflage all feature in the science-based piece. "This project started because my good friend Stephen Keynes, great-grandson of Charles Darwin, asked me if Rambert would be involved in the Darwin year 2009; that was three years ago," Mark Baldwin said. "I had been going to stay with Stephen at his house in Cambridgeshire which is full of Darwin memorabilia. Stephen's uncle was the economist Meynard Keynes, and Stephen's father Geoffrey Keynes, a William Blake scholar (amongst other achievements). In short, Stephen, who is 82, comes from a family steeped in the arts and science. My first big piece for Rambert Dance Company, Constant Speed, was also a science based commission from The Institute of Physics; think bouncing molecules and speeds of light. So, taking on something which celebrates 150 years of the publication of On the Origin of Species is my second dance and science piece. It is important to point out that this is not a lesson in evolution, rather I have used it as an inspiration. It is the last paragraph in On the Origin of Species, the most quoted paragraph in biology, which begins ‘It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank..'. Basically it is the paradox of the beauty of nature and the struggle to survive which makes it remarkable." The piece is is set to a specially-commissioned score by British composer Julian Anderson, with production design by one of Paris' leading lights of contemporary art, Kader Attia. "My main scientific collaborator in this project is the Cambridge Professor, Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition," Baldwin goes on. "She has, for me, come up with three distinct ways of looking at evolution: past and future, reveal and conceal, all the same but different." The Comedy of Change is part of Rambert's autumn tour:
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