Join us for an innovative residency and performance with media artist/dancer/choreographer

Jonah Bokaer

as this NC native and acclaimed dancer stages his evening-long work, 

"Three Cases of Amnesia"

Sat, Nov. 15

8pm, Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville 

General admission $20

Student admission $6

The performance features Bokaer's ground-breaking combination of multimedia and solo original modern dance.

Bokaer graduated from the NC School of the Arts in Media Arts and Dance and was immediately recruited by the prestigious Merce Cunningham Dance Company in NYC at age 18 - the youngest dancer ever hired in the company's 55-year history. Continuing in his mentor Cunningham's footsteps, Bokaer creates technically complex modern dance works that address the human body's relation to 21st-c. digital technologies, such as motion capture and 3-D animation. Named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2006, he has performed throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Japan.

For more information on these or other events in UNC Asheville's Cultural & Special Events season, call the UNCA Cultural Arts main office: 828/251-6991. Additional details are available online at

http://www.unca.edu/culturalarts/08-09/jonahBokaer.asp

AND you are invited to these FREE related activities with Bokaer!

(Please read beyond the break for details)

  Lecture on Motion Capture, FREE>12:15-1:35pm, Thurs, Nov. 13, Karpen Hall 012  
Bokaer will explain and demonstrate how motion capture digitally records a dancer's movements and incorporates them into a digital model for use in presentation and performance. Jonah also addresses the use of motion capture and digital media in POP and contemporary video and film such as The Matrix, walking participants through the process in his discussion. 

Dance Technology Workshop, FREE>10:25am-12n, Fri., Nov 14, New Hall Drama Studio (Reynolds Green level). Observers welcome. Experience first-hand what you heard about on Thursday as Bokaer works with UNC Asheville dance students in this lecture demonstration that explores the software and techniques integrating media and choreographic techniques.... See the dance studio as a collaborative & creative space investigating the crossover of Architecture, Media, Dance and Theatre. Bokaer intros much of the software (PremiEre, ProTools, Digital Perform, Hyperprism, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Dance Forms, and Improvisation Technologies among others.) Bring your laptop!

For more information on these or other events in UNC Asheville's Cultural & Special Events season, call our main office: 828/251-6991. Additional details are available online at http://www.unca.edu/culturalarts/08-09/jonahBokaer.asp