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To mark World Dance Day, Zsolt Vencel Kovacs
was performing his interpretation of part of the composition
created this month by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
scientists.
"For me this music brings melancholy, its monotony gives me
tension and as the music progresses it becomes more rhythmical
and aggressive and at the end it calms down. It inspired me,"
the 21-year-old told Reuters.
The MIT team used a computer to transform a model of the
structure of SARS-CoV-2 - as the virus that causes COVID-19 is
known - into interwoven melodies, assigning a different note to
each of the protein's amino acids.
A dancer with the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet, Kovacs
had to return home when Europe's borders went into lockdown,
catching the last flight back to Budapest for Hungarian
citizens.
Now he practices at home and works in a bakery, hoping to return
to Lithuania once the restrictions ease.
Meanwhile, he is challenging other choreographers to perform
their own interpretations of the "COVID melody" at other famous
locations, showcasing their beauty to future visitors.
"The aim is to make squares and sites that have emptied because
of the coronavirus, popular. At the moment, even the statues
feel lonely," he said.
"So that when this epidemic is over, these squares could be
filled with people again."
The full composition runs for nearly 1 hour and 50 minutes.
(https://soundcloud.com/user-275864738/viral-counterpoint-of-the-coronavirus-spike-protein-2019-ncov)
(Writing by Krisztina Fenyo and Krisztina Than)
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