Matematika eta Euskal Dantzak

Abstract

Mathematics and dance may be thought as disciplines very far away one from each other and it may seem that finding links between them is impossible, but in this paper we will show that this is not true. Wearing mathematical glasses, we will easily find basic geometrical concepts. On one hand, we will see that dancers, when organized in groups, form circumferences, rectangles and other polygons; on the other hand, we will describe symmetries among dancers’ positions, by means of rotations, translations and reflections. We will also describe other dances making use of deeper and less obvious concepts, such as permutations and combinations from combinatorics and braid theory from topology.