“Ghostcatching” by Riverbed

  • ©Bill T. Jones, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar  Riverbed


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    Ghostcatching

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  • Riverbed

Description:


    In Ghostcatching, the disembodied movements of dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones spawn a series of selves that reflect, entangle, and overtake each other in a search for being. The story begins with an ancestral figure confined to a box and a fixed loop of poses. He spawns a soloist who breaks free but is then entrapped by the hardening trajectories he draws in the air around him. Later, his body multiplies into a single complex network, which propagates phase-shifting motions suggesting infinite possibility. The virtual dance, generated from motion-capture data, was created in Kinetix Character Studio on Compaq NT workstations.

Hardware:


    Compaq NT workstations

Software:


    Kinetix Character Studio


Additional Contributors:


    Directors: Bill T. Jones, Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar

    Producer: Riverbed

    Collaborators: Michael Girard, Susan Amkraut

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