GILLIAN RHODES

CREATIVE STATEMENT

Searching for the Flash (shown above) is a short, comedic dance piece about the search to understand Fast Radio Bursts, in which I play both the astronomer and the FRB. The final, repeating FRB is based on a recent discovery and matches the musical counts with the number of days that the FRB is 'on' and 'off.'

BIOGRAPHY

Gillian Rhodes is an American performing artist and storyteller. She started training in ballet when she was five years old and majored in dance at Columbia University in New York. Since graduating, she has lived and worked globally for the past nine years: choreographing for television in Cambodia, dancing professionally in South Korea, and now a leader of the budding contemporary dance scene in Lahore, Pakistan. She is a longtime astrophysics enthusiast and hosts her own livestream talk show called STEAM Cafe with CosmoQuest, about the intersections of astronomy and art.