Einstein’s theory of relativity is almost 100 years old. So how to celebrate and at the same time shed a little light on how to understand it? “The Institute of Physics has asked a contemporary dance company to produce a new work marking the centenary of the 1905 publication of Einstein’s most famous and important ideas. The show will be premiered at Sadler’s Wells theatre in May 2005, and if London audiences are wowed, a national tour is planned. ‘Dance is an expressive medium. It will be ideal for abstract concepts like the theories of Einstein on everything from tiny atoms to the dynamics of the whole cosmos’.”