“Ghostcatching” by Riverbed
Conference:
Title:
- Ghostcatching
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- 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
