On Dance: A Physics Lesson

Erotic is not a word usually associated with physics, but that is one of the ways Karole Armitage describes the complicated subject she explores in her new work “Three Theories.” The choreographer has created the piece, which takes on relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory as part of the 2010 World Science Festival this week in New York. We asked Ms. Armitage about science, its relationship to dance, and the influence of her father, a biologist, on her work. “Three Theories” will have its New York premiere on Thursday night at Cedar Lake Theater in Chelsea; it runs through Sunday.