TANGO and bungee jumping may seem like unusual bedfellows, but a Liverpool company has combined the two as a unique dance performance.

Based just outside the city centre, Wired Aerial Theatre is developing an original show it believes is quite unlike anything else.

Dancer and actress Wendy Hesketh is the creator of “bungee assisted dancing”, a combination of harness work and traditional moves.

She cut her teeth with Argentinian dance company De La Guarda, where she had her first taste of aerial work before leaving after four years, deciding she needed to blaze her own trail.

Together with technical director Jamie Ogilvie, she began work on what would become bungee assisted dance.

Ms Hesketh said: “We originally used wire which harnessed in the front, so it was in my face and very distracting.

“Then we tried having the wire on the back, but it was still quite stiff and did not have the right feeling. Then Jamie suggested using a bungee cord, so he controls the slack and I essentially use it to fly.

“We combined our expertise – I know the craft, Jamie knows the technical properties and uses his history as a professional climber. Somewhere in the middle, you get what we have created.”