Don’t be fooled. The fervent house key jangling, studied water bottle tapping, and resolute shoe-on-shoe beating that transpire at the beginning of Ridgewood-based dancemaker Laurel Snyder’s new evening-length performance LOOP are not random noise, embodiments of how you might feel on a Monday morning, or some b.s. art tedium of the type we all have to put up with on occasion.

Or, maybe they are? Life is full of mysteries.

But these minutiae also begin to assume purpose and meaning as the base from which the dancers will evolve—if the first 20 minutes of LOOP that I saw at its inaugural rehearsal at The Footlight are any indication.