APERIODIC Performances

Why Patterns? is a dynamic, variable-geometry band on the French experimental electronic music scene. They have performed at numerous concerts and festivals, including Festival Météo, GMEM, Jazz à la Villette, and Jazz d'Or. Their debut EP is inspired by composers Suzanne Ciani and Laurie Spiegel.

Aperiodic – by way of ballet, breakdancing and Hofstadter’s butterfly

Reviews of the performance:

a genuinely interesting and entertaining piece of work. Back Stage Bristol 

great fun… an event that simply got me – and the rest of the audience as well – thinking. Physics World 

a true interplay of art and science and is a great example of how a little bit of brain fizz can enhance one’s enjoyment of the creative act. -- Stage Talk Magazine 

Here we take our audience across the world and through the ages - from the ancient temples to the world of shapes, sums and mathematical abstraction and the lab with experiments and simulations of quasicrystals. Aperiodic patterns are patterns that while not random, never quite repeat. They have cropped up in art, maths and science for centuries. They have been found in the tiling on ancient Muslim temples and the crystalline microstructure of a meteorite, and they have been explored by intellectual greats from Johannes Kepler to Hao Wang and Roger Penrose.

We will feast your eyes, ears and mind on beautiful ideas using ballet, breakdancing and the pretty fractal patterns of Hofstadter's butterfly.  Think Misty Copeland meets Beat Street, Penrose, graphene and gorgeous ancient middle eastern tiling.

Anna Demming Davis has a PhD in physics and has been dancing since the age of 3. She co-founded South West Dance Theatre in 2010 to create exciting and intriguing dance theatre that draws on a range of dance styles. Davis is also a science writer and contributes to the Observer/Guardian, New Scientist, Scientific American, Physics World and Chemistry World among others.

Artists performing in “Aperiodic – by way of ballet, breakdancing and Hofstadter’s butterfly” also include Silvia Orazzo, Sebastián Morales Castillo and Katarzyna Niznik:

Silvia aka Bgirl Danger has been break dancing since 2010 and has taken part in shows including with the Dance company Wiz’art, and Metta Theatre Company, as well as competing in Break the floor in Slovenia and Bonnie and Clyde; IBE in the Netherlands.

Sebastián Morales Castillo is a dancer and multidisciplinary artist with 16 years of training and experience in various audiovisual, theatrical, and choreographic projects with organisations including Breakin' Convention, ACTA Theatre Bristol, and Immersive Cypher.

Katarzyna is a contemporary artist who graduated from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, with a specialization in Dance, has performed in "Antiquity - Dance in Re-construction," and participated in nationwide contemporary dance workshops and an international summer school.