"False Start," a new choreography by Jonah Bokaer, is a technology-influenced solo that has been animated, choreographed, and performed by the artist through the use of digital choreographic software. The movement for the piece has been designed by Bokaer through the use of 3D animation, and pays homage to the historical painting “False Start” by Jasper Johns (1959). This particular work will address the erasure of the moving human body, and the trace of its presence. As with his previous two works, Bokaer’s solo choreographic practice addresses the deconstruction of modernist portraiture as its inspiration, presenting a digital “maquette” which is mimicked by the performer. As the moving human body is plotted in the built domain of technology, the performer expands the material from digital software into a three-dimensional solo in real time, situating Bokaer’s moving body in opposition to the animated double, taking cubist dimensions of composition and surrealist uses of “the double” into live performance, often to surprising effect. This original work will receive its premiere on Sunday, April 15th 2007 in Paris, at the Studio Théatre de Vitry, and will be available for international touring through 2009. This new work will also complete a trilogy of three solos of similar aesthetic concerns, and FALSE START (2007) will also available to be performed in conjunction with CHARADE (2006) and NUDEDESCENDANCE (2005).