La vache est dans le pré

In the hushed library of Cern’s headquarters on the Swiss-French border, a dancer, moving slowly and nimbly, climbs up to the top of a bookshelf and then hangs off it.

This is Strangels, a work by Geneva-based choreographer Gilles Jobin, who has just begun a three-month arts residency at Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider; earlier this month, its scientists shook the world with their discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.