S.F. Ballet to shake things up a bit

A dance set to the sound of seismic movement is part of the San Francisco Ballet’s commemoration of the 1906 earthquake centennial.

The idea for the dance comes from Ken Goldberg, an artist and professor of industrial engineering, computer science and robotics at UC Berkeley.

Goldberg and his team have devised a way to transmit seismic waves from the Hayward Fault into a concert hall to activate lighting and sounds such as waves and thunderclaps.

Muriel Maffre, a principal dancer with the company, is set to improvise to the sounds in an eight-minute performance scheduled Tuesday that is part of a program marking the 100 years since the earthquake.