---

Media Relations

Motion Capture Dance Gallery Captions

Ben Munisteri of the New York-based Ben Munisteri Dance Projects is in the midst of creating a potentially groundbreaking modern dance piece. With the help of Indiana University's new Ergonomics Laboratory, Munisteri has created a marriaged of modern dance and motion capture technology, the same technology used to animate many video games and to create movie characters such as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings.

Lisa Wheeler dances under the watchful eye of an infrared camera.

A dancer holds motion capture sensors in her hand as others adhere them to their clothes.

Ben Munisteri, director, helps associate artistic director, Lisa Wheeler, place motion capture sensors on her clothes.

A dancer from Ben Munisteri Dance Projects places a motion capture sensor on the heel of Danica Holociak.

Lisa Wheeler checks her motion capture sensors before dancing in front of the infrared cameras.

Lisa Wheeler, Danica Holoviak and Beau Hancock rehearse as infrared cameras capture their movement.

---

---