Preview: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's Ferocious Beauty: Genome.Art and science collide powerfully in Ferocious Beauty: Genome. Artistic director Liz Lerman and her dancers have taken two years to immerse im·merse tr.v. im·mersed, im·mers·ing, im·mers·es 1. To cover completely in a liquid; submerge. 2. To baptize by submerging in water. 3. themselves in the science and ethics of the human genome--the microscopic building block of all human beings. Lerman, a MacArthur Fellow known for her far-reaching community and age blind choreographic work, sought out dozens of scientists to explore the extraordinary possibilities and dilemmas arising from the recent groundbreaking map of the human genome The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is composed of 24 distinct pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomal + X + Y) with a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. . "Dance," Lerman insists, "can be something to make more people think." Feb. 3-4, Wesleyan University Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1831. There are special cooperative study programs with the California Institute of Technology and the engineering department of Columbia Univ. , Middletown, GT, and Feb. 10, Williams College Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams. The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor , MA. See www.danceexchange.org. |
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