Pitchfork

It's true, ballet dancers are fitter, happier, and more productive than the lot of us. And now some ballet dancers will get their artistic grind on to selections from Radiohead's impeccable catalog, as part of a new dance piece from choreographer Stephen Petronio.

Scottish Ballet premieres Petronio's Ride the Beast at the Edinburgh Playhouse in the Scottish capital, during the Edinburgh International Festival, from August 18-20. Beast will include five jams from Yorke and associates, including "Fitter Happier", Amnesiac ambient cut "Hunting Bears", Kid A's "Idioteque" and "The National Anthem", and the acoustic version of "Creep" that closes the My Iron Lung EP. Despite the ballet moments in its video, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" does not feature in the production.

As Petronio gushed in a Scottish Ballet press release, "Radiohead's music is a brilliant investigation of achingly modern taste. They sail through genre and form effortlessly and passionately, and their music demands a physical response from me that by-passes reason."

He also stated, "I have chosen the songs for Ride the Beast for various reasons: personal pleasure, their ability to propel, a desire to hit some peaks in the Radiohead's history, and ultimately their ability to shape a world I wanted to move these dancers through."

Petronio, no stranger to setting pirouettes to populists sounds, has also utilized the music of Rufus Wainwright and others in the past.

Radiohead, meanwhile, have revealed no new hints behind their presumed next album, while the Dead Air Space blog has been suspiciously quiet for some three weeks now. If anyone corners Thom at a pub anytime soon, please liquor him up until he tells all.