A Pinch of Salt

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

Sunday April 18th 2010

The programme will explore the problems the world faces with regard to food production and waste.

The 2010 Science on Stage show is built around the theme of food and uses dance and music to approach the subject along two different routes:

There are science ‘pegs’ on which the wider issues are hung. There are a number of these in the first half of the show where we use items from previous productions to give a flavour of major science concepts like predation, photosynthesis and electrolysis. In the second half we will première a new half hour dance musical entitled ‘A Pinch of Salt’ which deals with the creation of atoms and their murderously reactive nature before transformation into peaceful and loving ions. It then explores some applications of salt before expanding into broader food issues.

The second perspective concerns the wider and more engaging ethical issues Here we are developing an approach we initiated last year of using the spaces in the audience areas of the Royal Concert Hall to provide a kind of ’Science Fair ‘during an extended interval so that the audience (approximately 1,000) can be intrigued by demonstrations, have their questions answered, their challenges met and their need for further information satisfied. As well as science demonstrations there will be artistic and literary display material.

Science on Stage with its choir of over two hundred and over one hundred dancers
will fill the Royal Concert Hall with song, dance and artwork in an evening which
will be spectacular as well as thought provoking.

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A Pich of Salt