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By Barbara Adolfi
Rappahannock News Writer
Dancer, choreographer and storyteller Sharon Wyrrick will perform her latest and one of her most exciting works, Rare Ecstasy: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, on Saturday, April 21, at Ki Theatre. Sharon Wyrrick sweeps us along, through movement, storytelling and visuals, in discovering the unique life and ground breaking scientific work of this Nobel Prize (1983) scientist.
Barbara McClintock worked alone in her laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., carefully interpreting the genes of com, and quietly revolutionized our understanding of genetics and evolution. She is now considered one of history’s most important geneticists, her discoveries resonating even in the most recent developments in the field.
What happens when a dance and performance artist creates a work about a geneticist?
“Wyrrick’s synthesis of body, mind and spirit make the process of science come alive in ways that only someone who intimately
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