i t e r a t i o n s is a recent project and developing dance performance, in which Ellen Crofton choreographs a state of repetition, tension, and unfolding; seeking iterations and rhythms in chaos.
With echoes of line dance, renaissance dance, and everyday gestures, Ellen moves between precision and disorder. What happens when we seek continuum and patterns in chaotic states within our bodies, our systems, or our communities? Perhaps the rhythms we find allow us to remain rooted in shapelessness.
i t e r a t i o n s is an offering or invitation – how can we collectively feel rooted when we dance in the chaos? And how can we use this as power against harmful systems or as a tool for protest?
This project was developed during the ATLAS program as part of ImPuls Tanz international dance festival 2025, with the help of mentor and choreographer Christopher Matthews.
“I was transported to another world. The rhythms really evolved and the use of breath made me really experience them physically” - Emma Harrison
‘Sounds of Shadow’ was a collaborative performance piece by Ellen and sound artist Max Bowen, performed as part of Traumburg Festival 2023, Germany.
If we unearth the spaces behind brown noise, between movement, motion, or the gaps underneath textures, we might be able to find a place of continuum; a space with no binaries. Perhaps it is the membranes within and around us that allow for these spaces: the queering of real and imaginary realms. Through a latex installation, choreography, and interactive sound, the performance piece ‘Sounds of Shadow’ sought to capture the liminal spaces behind, between, and within membranous states.
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