Combining dance and structural engineering, Rebecca Lazier, senior lecturer in dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and Sigrid Adriaenssens, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, are collaborating on a project involving the interactions of dancers with nets to explore materials for resilient building facades and impact barriers. The project, supported in part by the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for Collaborations Between Artists and Scientists or Engineers, aims to create choreographic
works that generate a new understanding of how nets turn rigid when loaded and soften when unloaded. At the same time, dancers will explore the interaction between net and human. Photo by Sigrid Adriaenssens