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Specialists from dance, music, biomedical and computational science, 3D animation and motion control use cutting edge technology to experiment with the ephemeral nature of real-time art. Virtual, mechanical and live elements come together on stage in the Great Hall at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, creating new choreographies from sensory data. Three leading choreographers - Lea Anderson, Russell Maliphant and Lisa Nelson - will each shape sections of the performance. Quartet has four components: a virtual dancer; a musician; a robot camera; and, a real dancer. Quartet's central figure, a virtual dancer, is an avatar of sensual information, playing between its manifestation and its puppeteers. On stage the interactions between the performers slip through different pairings, trios, and quartets, such as the musician using the speed or acceleration of her violin playing to duet with the real dancer; or a trio between the real and virtual dancers and the robot camera, exploring the choreography of cinematic space: the poetics of looking and moving. This interplay uncovers the tensions within the transfer of data.