Nicky Clayton, a biologist and psychologist who studies the behaviour of birds, and who is also a salsa and tango dancer, collaborated with Rambert Dance Company to create a work commemorating Charles Darwin. As The Comedy of Change tours the United Kingdom, she explains how communicating via motion is common to both dance and the natural world.
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Interview by Patrick Goymer, associate editor at Nature.
See http://www.nature.com/darwin/index.html for more on Darwin.
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Goymer, P. Q&A: Bird behaviour, Darwin and dance. Nature 462, 288 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462288a
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