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Opening Night
CHARADE premiered successfully at DTW on Saturday, and was received with great enthusiasm by both young and mature audiences. I had initial anxiety about how the mixed audience would react to these digital images of the body, but people were remarkably excited about what they had seen. I may also be invited to perform the piece in showcases at PS 122 and Joe's Pub later this Spring. Here is an image of the first section of the work, in which I mimic the "digits" on a digital hand.
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.
