Novel Formats #3: Loop regards the slack in the system. Form is stretched, unwound, emptied of its compositional parts and drawn out as far the structure will allow before releasing it to re-form as itself. Loop is a quartet with dance artist Julian Barnett, electric guitarist Evan Patrick, vocalist and interdisciplinary artist Jean Carla Rodea, and Rachel Bernsen. In life, as in performance, we think that our senses are right and true but so much is learned, habitual. Novel Formats aims to interrupt these patterns through novelty, immediacy, risk, and real time human connection. The seven-part performance cycle is conceived and directed by dance artist Rachel Bernsen. Each brings together artists across multiple disciplines and in different permutations to engage with a proposed theme and to work with Rachel’s minimal choreographic structures. The work is rooted in improvisation and dependent on the individual artists’ interpretation and the deliciously unpredictable dynamic of the group. It challenges each of us to stay in the continuous present, to attune to the moment with our whole selves.