Digging into a variety of filmed dance performances from past glorious times, composer Barbara Ellison generates impossible dances, mesmerising routines, hypnotic moves, surreal looping music, and much more in her new work Loop’n’Groove: Micro-choreographies of the past.

What if any choreography potentially contains an infi nite number of other –very different– unperceived choreographies? By looking and listening at audio-visual recordings of dance not simply as documentation but rather as an open territory for creative recombination, Ellison reveals in this new work a fascinating rabbit hole of surprising and exhilarating ‘media dance’.

Barbara Ellison is an award-winning artist / composer whose work explores ghostly presence and substance in a plethora of sonic and visual realms. Her creations have been presented internationally in live performances, installations, featured radio shows, and audio releases, including her latest album ‘CyberSongs’ (Unsounds Records) and the 3-hour piece ‘Cyber-Opera’. She holds a PhD on composition from the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her book ‘Sonic Phantoms’ (Bloomsbury Press, co-authored with Thomas BW Bailey) was recently published to critical acclaim.