Artribune Podcast: Luca Tommassini and Daniela Bortoletto on Dance and Particle Physics

The Artribune podcast "Contemporaneamente" features a dialogue between Luca Tommassini, a dancer, choreographer, and director, and Daniela Bortoletto, an experimental particle physicist. Tommassini, trained at the Balletto di Roma and in New York and Los Angeles, has worked with Prince, Michael Jackson, Bjork, and others, and choreographed films including "The Tourist" with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Bortoletto contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson and the top quark, and currently studies Higgs boson properties while developing instrumentation for elementary particle measurement. She has received an Early Career Award from the US NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK. She advocates for gender equality in physics and advanced technologies. The conversation explores intersections of science and art, the role of passion in exploring the unknown, and societal impacts of technological change.