“Atom Dance” is about healing and being open, and how Björk’s friendships got her through the breakup. She enlists the help of ANOHNI, a good friend who previously appeared on Volta’s “The Dull Flame of Desire” and “My Juvenile”.
“Atom Dance” may be referencing the concept of quantum entanglement, AKA “spooky attachment at a distance”, where even two particles at great distances are still connected and impacting eachother. You spin one particle clockwise, the other will spin counterclockwise in tandem, even when they are separated.
Björk is expressing this concept in terms of her many relationships, with her friends and lovers, where even though they are separated, they are forever joined in an atom dance, always influencing each other.










