Ockham's Razor!

The Dance Of Death!

Ockham's Razor is an ariel theatre group that have recently been performing for the Gravity Fields festival in Grantham. The Gravity Fields festival is being held in honor of the 300-year anniversary of Isaac Newton's Year of Wonders. When Isaac Newton returned to his home in Grantham due to the Great Plague, he discovered many incredible things such as the Laws of Motion, Gravity and how light is made of a spectrum of different colours. We call this year his "Year of Wonders".

The Ockham's Razor performance was held at the beautiful St Wulfram's Church. The magnificent stained glass windows definitely added to the aesthetic of the entire performance. When me and mom first arrived, we thought we were in the wrong place because everyone looked very posh and sophisticated. Most of the men even had suits on and there were women serving glasses of champagne!
During the show, extremely talented acrobats danced and performed on balancing poles and scaffholding structures high off the ground. The entire show was split into three sections and each section told a special story.
The first section featured two women and a man and it showed "the best and worst of humanity". Without speaking, the acrobats displayed love, envy, hate, fear, mercy and forgiveness.
The second part was a duet between a man and a woman on a metal frame suspended in the air. It was based on Holbein's woodcuts of "The Dance Of Death". Death was represented as a skeleton who danced a woman to her grave. It was quite dramatic!
Isaac Newton said, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." The third part of the show was about how everyone's actions affect someone else and how those actions can lead to friendship. There were four acrobats in this performance who twisted and spun and climbed while suspended by 25 metres of rope.

Watching all of the magnificent performances made me feel very calm, as if nothing else was happening in the world. I wonder if the other Gravity Fields performers will be as good as that?