Dancer performs 'virus melody' in empty Budapest square

Updated: 2020-04-30 08:22
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Hungarian ballet dancer Zsolt Kovacs performs a choreographic piece he has designed for the 'coronavirus melody', a musical composition created by MIT scientists from a model of the protein structure of SARS-CoV-2, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Budapest, Hungary, April 28, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

Dressed in black and wearing a facemask, the dancer leaps and pirouttes across Budapest's deserted central Heroes Square - to the strains of a melody that mirrors the molecular structure of the coronavirus.

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.

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