Ghostcatching

###VENUES
- - - Museum & gallery installation

  • Regional Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (April 11, 13, 14, 2002)
  • University Art Gallery & Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California: Irvine. (March 17 - April 22 2001 )
  • The Choreographic Center, Essen, Germany (Nov 9 - Dec 14 2000)
  • Centro Cultural de Belem, Cyber - Media Art Festival, Lisbon, Portugal. (Oct - Nov 1999 Nov)
  • MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, MA. (May 30 - Oct 31, 1999)
  • Opening. Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. (January 4 - Feb 5, 1999)

As part of Jones’ Breathing Show tour

  • Krannert Center, University of Illinois, Champagne, Illinois. (March 6, 2002)
  • University of Tempe, Tempe, Arizona (February 10, 2002)
  • Lincoln Center Summer Festival, New York City (July 20, 2000)
  • Chicago, Illinois (April 21-22, 2000)
  • Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, California. (April 13, 2000)
  • MacArter Theater, Princeton, New Jersey. (Feb 29, 2000)
  • Warner Theater, Washington, DC (Feb 26, 2000)
  • Victoria Theater, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ. (Feb 18 - 20, 2000)
  • Zellerbach Hall (CalPerformances), Berkeley, California. (Jan 21, 2000)
  • Lied Center, Lawrence, Kansas. (Jan 28 & Feb 11, 2000)
  • Emerson Majestic Theater, Boston, Massachusetts. (Feb 3, 5, 6, 2000)
  • Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, Iowa. (October 23, 1999)
  • RomeEuropa Festival, Rome, Italy. (Nov 6 and 7, 1999)
  • Sadlers Wells, London, England. (Nov 10, 1999)
  • Leverkusen, Germany. (Nov 20, 1999)
  • Holland Dance Festival, The Hague, Holland. (Nov 23 - 24, 1999)
  • Lied Center, Lawrence, Kansas. (Nov 28, 1999)
  • Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, Iowa. (October 23, 1999)

Excerpts & broadcast

  • Dance on Camera: An Art Close Up, on WGBH 2, Boston (March 3, 2004)
  • Dance on Camera Festival, Kannon Dance/Pro Arte, House of Cinema, St. Petersburg, Russia. (Mar 21 - 28 2003)

  • 2002 Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance,

  • Duke University East Campus, Durham, NC. (June 23, 2002)
  • VHS installation, Museo Bellas Artes Universal, Havana, Cuba. (June 13 - July 18, 2002)
  • On-line documentary at ChannelP (on Main Stage) (November 8th, 1999 - 2000)
  • Computer Animation Festival Theater, SIGGRAPH conference, Los Angeles. (Aug 8 -13, 1999)
  • Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. (Sept 4 - 9, 1999)
  • As segment of Brave New World, a special Nightline report on ABC-TV. (Aug 5, 1999)
  • Cannes Film Festival, Digital Film Program, Miramar Theater on the Croisette. (May 18-20, 1999)

###CREDITS
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  • Visuals and sound design: Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar
  • Choreography: Bill T. Jones
  • Installation Architect: Marco Steinberg
  • Motion Capture: Futurelight, Modern Uprising
  • Michael Girard and Susan Amkraut) provided software support.
  • The Cooper Union commissioned this work. Earlier support from the Keith Haring Foundation set it in motion. The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.

###PRESS
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  • “The Ghost in the Machine,” by Ann Dils, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, January 2002, pp. 94-104.
  • “Technology on the Line,” by Beth Coleman in AI: Performance for the Planet, spring 2001, p 45.
  • “Isolating movement from body,” by Laura Bleiberg, The Orange County Register, March 23, 2001.
  • “Tripping the Lights Fantastical,” by Kinney Littlefield, Los Angeles Times (Orange County edition), March 17, 2001.
  • “Bill T. Jones Experiments with Fusion of Dance, Text and Image,” review of The Breathing Show (with Ghostcatching) by Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2000.
  • “An Outer Hero Shows His Inner Man,” review of The Breathing Show (with Ghostcatching) by Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times, February 23, 2000.
  • “Uma Nova Forma de Olhar a Dança,” by Rita Hasse Ferreira, Publico, November 1, 1999.
  • “Digital Film Fest,” by Katherine Tyrka, Computer Graphics World, October, 1999.
  • “Brave New World: Man and Machine,” an ABC-News report by Robert Krulwich, first aired August 5, 1999 (10-11pm)
  • “Critical Mass,” by Linda Yablonsky, Time Out New York, July 15, 1999.
  • “Getting to Know MASS MoCA”, by Christina Temin, Boston Globe, July 7, 1999.
  • “Arts Center has Room for the Big and the New,” review of MASS MoCA by Roberta Smith, The New York Times, June 2, 1999.
  • “With ‘Tarzan,’ Animation Sees its High-tech Future,” by John Canemaker, The New York Times, May 2, 1999.
  • “How to Catch a Ghost,” review by Henry Baumgartner, Mechanical Engineering, April 1999.
  • “Ghostcatching. More perspectives on captured motion,” review by Susan Kozel, Archis, April 1999.
  • “Ghostcatching,” review, ArtByte, April/May 1999.
  • “Computers dance into a new realm,” feature by Pam Dixon, San Diego Union Dispatch, February 28, 1999.
  • “Mental Space,” feature by Deirdre Towers, Dance On Camera Journal, January - February 1999.
  • “How to Tell the Computer from the Dance,” feature by Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, February 23, 1999.
  • “Computer Dancing,” short feature by Martin Bush, Voice of America international radio broadcast, February 17, 1999.
  • “Ghost in the Machine,” short feature, Newsweek, February 8, 1999.
  • “New York Entertainment Report,” short feature, NHK, the Japanese Public Television Network, February 6, 1999.
  • “Choreographics,” short feature, Wired, February 1999.
  • City Arts, short feature, WNYC-TV (Channel 13), January 29, 1999.
  • “Using New Technology to Create ‘Virtual Dance’: Project with Bill T. Jones shows how choreographers may gain new ways to design movement,” profile/essay by Zoe Ingalls, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 29, 1999.
  • “Electronic boogaloo: Motion-capture technology hits the video-art/dance word in Ghostcatching,” review by Tom Samiljan, Time Out New York, January 14-21, 1999.
  • “I Dance the Body Electric,” profile/essay by Julia Lyon, New York Citysearch (http://newyork.citysearch. com), January 13, 1999.
  • “Losing the Body: What happens when you separate the dancer from the dance?”, profile/essay by Austin Bunn, The Village Voice, January 12, 1999.
  • “Dance Is Enhanced On an Interactive Site,” short review by Matt Richtel for Circuits section, The New York Times, January 7, 1999.