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CHARADE
Preparation for the upcoming performances of CHARADE are going quite well; I am currently rendering the animations into their final versions, and writing a DVD that will be compatible for the performance. One of the animations was created on the body of an ant, yet the movements were composed through a live motion capture session - that is to say that human movement has been transposed onto the body of an insect! Retouching these movements were especially challenging, because instead of working with a human spine (and its motions), I had to work with the figure's thorax........
Jonah Bokaer
Jonah Bokaer (Ithaca, NY) is a contemporary dance graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, and is a current member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. While studying Visual & Media Art at The New School University he began exploring choreographic software, and has developed several digitally-created choreographies that address the moving body in relation to contemporary technology. These works have been exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad, to great critical acclaim. Bokaer is also the founder of "Chez Bushwick Studios," an interdisciplinary arts studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
