The inspiration for this demonstration dance came while visiting an exhibition of works by M.C. Escher in Lisbon after the December 2017 Curia SCD weekend in Portugal.
However it was nearly two years before the idea emerged from its larval stage to become a mature dance.
My favourite Escher drawings are those that show geometrically and/or gravity defying buildings with multiple perspectives.
But unlike those, or the eternally climbing monks, the three Metamorphosis woodcuts do at least have both a beginning and an end so are more amenable to representation in dance form.
This dance is a pale reflection of the complexity of Escher’s drawings, but is still difficult and suitable only for a group of mathematically and/or artistically minded expert dancers with some time on their hands.
It is loosely based on Metamorphosis II, the 2nd in the series, which has roughly 12 sections that transform from one to another.
The succession of figures tries, in some way, to match the images with some similar transformations between them.
Some images of the woodcut may be found at
http://www.3quarks.com/en/Metamorphose/index.html
or
https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/m-c-escher/metamorphosis-ii.jpg
.