First laureate for Collide@CERN-Geneva Prize announced

First laureate for Collide@CERN-Geneva Prize announced. Geneva, 29 March 2012. The first Collide@CERN-Geneva ¹ prize in Dance and Performance was today awarded by jury ² to the 47-year-old Swiss-born dancer and choreographer Gilles Jobin ³ for his proposal to explore through interventions and dance the relationship between mind and body at the world's largest particle physics laboratory. "When I walk in the street, I don't feel my body that much," explained Jobin in his proposal. "Like a CERN physicist, I can walk and think, I can drink a coffee and think, I can run or drive a car and think. But when I dance, I must try to be one body and soul: I become a thinking body. Do physicists think with their body too?" In making the award, the jury recognized Jobin for "his intense interest in CERN ⁴ , and his increasing and evolving fascination with science, as shown by his most recent work Spider Galaxies which used data from the LHC to generate music and movement.