Education Partners
Lincoln Center Institute
Ghostcatching
The Lincoln Center Institute has partnered with the company to use Ghostcatching, a digital work from 1999, as part of its in school repertory and online coursework for professional development.
About Ghostcatching
choreographed and performed by Bill T. Jones
created by Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar
Upon its premiere in 1999, Ghostcatching was described as having made complementary what had before been diametric: the combination of technology and humanity. The 7-minute work was created using pioneering motion-capture techniques, and Mr. Jones was filmed in a seamless succession of roughly forty different choreographic sequences. In their final rendered form, the bodies for Ghostcatching fall between a scribble and an x-ray, with line and density providing visual suggestion of rhythm and character, while the numerous facets of Mr. Jones's distinct artistic personality shine through. Click Here to watch excerpts fro Ghostcatching on The OpenEnded Group's website.
About LCI
Lincoln Center Institure (LCI), the educational cornerstone of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, is a global leader in education and the arts. The Institute is known for its inventive repertory, and brings dance, music, theater, film, visual arts, and architecture into classrooms in the New York City area, across the nation, and around the world. In more than three decades of outreach, LCI's approach has reached over 20 million students, teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and professors of education worldwide. For more information, visit The LCI website.How Ghostcatching is being used
In the classroom repertory:
At the core of the Institute's practice are direct encounters with live works of art. New York area school children attend LCI repertory performances of dance, music, and theater at Lincoln Center Institute and on tour in their schools. They study selected photographic portfolios and works in the local museums. The works of art described in this section, and the visual arts program, become the basis around which instruction is designed in partnership with an Institute teaching artist.
For Online Professional Development Courses:
Through a four part survey-course, LCI offers as complete an introduction to imaginative teaching and learning as possible. The four courses are connected by Ghostcatching, the stunning work of art created as a virtual dance installation by choreographer/dancer Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group. Explore LCI's imaginative-learning method; learn to plan instructional units and guide the students' "noticing," a crucial part of the Institute's pedagogy; create lessons that connect Ghostcatchingto the curriculum and to your students' lives.
–– Education, Thursday, August 27, 2009
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