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The performance Dancing Dots - the exhibition (Misgeld, 2022) aims to explore new artistic expression in Swedish folk music by combining live performing (playing and dancing) with auditory and visual displays of motion capture recorded movement. The performance was constructed using optical motion capture recordings (MoCap) captured in a collaborative process with one musician and two dancers. This collaborative process included rehearsals, recordings, and evaluations of performances with optical Mocap as a tool for exploring the interactions between sound and movements in our joint performance.  Movements recorded from selected markers on the dancers and the players bodies were used to generate synchronized light and sound loops: marker movements were displayed as moving lights in pixeled tubes, and the sound design was created by mapping synthesized sounds to parameters of movements in selected body parts.  The research question for the performance was to enquire into the artistic and expressive possibilities of combining sonified and visualized movements with live folk music and dance. The motivation for this was three-fold: to explore new ways of artistic expressions by expanding and amplifying the movements into an auditory space in order to allow sonic interactions with traditional dance and fiddle playing; to challenge the dancers and players traditional roles by adding the possibility of interacting (playing/dancing with) with pre-recorded movements; and to bridge across performance contexts by offering possibility for audience to participate by exploring the augmented music/dance by watching, listening and also moving/dancing in the visual/sonic space.  Thus, the overarching aim is to explore methods for an open-ended development of artistic expression with traditional practice both as a departure point and a primary source of inspiration.