Available for presentation · Live performance

With Our Shadows

Interactive dance and projection bringing live bodies, animated image and shadow into a shared performance environment.

Interactive projection Live dance New York City · 2025

The work

A body meeting its projected double.

With Our Shadows is an interactive dance and projection work evolving from Touching from a Distance, Zjana’s first motion capture (MoCap) system created for live stage performance in 2018.

The work was presented at WHITE WAVE Dance’s SoloDuo Dance Festival at Dixon Place in New York City in 2025.

The live choreography unfolds with animated and projected material, creating shifting relationships between bodies, shadows and digital images.

How the system works

An Orbbec depth camera tracks the live body; TouchDesigner translates that motion into real-time projected imagery controlled and played back from a dedicated computer.

Zjana’s role Choreographer and performer

Programming information

Presentation snapshot

Status: Available for presentation
Format: Live performance with interactive projection
Suitable for: Theatres, festivals and gallery performance programmes
Performers: To be confirmed in the touring pack
Duration: To be confirmed in the touring pack
Technology: TouchDesigner, Orbbec depth camera, real-time motion tracking, interactive projection, control/playback computer and sound playback
Playing area + floor: Minimum dimensions and floor requirements to be confirmed in the touring pack
Projection + blackout: Projection surface, throw and blackout requirements to be confirmed following a technical conversation
Camera + calibration: Orbbec placement, calibration time and operating position to be confirmed with the venue
Get-in + rehearsal: Get-in duration and on-site rehearsal requirement to be confirmed in the touring pack
Supplied by Zjana: Final touring equipment and operator provision to be confirmed
Venue supplies: Projector, projection surface, sound and lighting requirements to be confirmed
Access: Access information available through a presentation conversation

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Delivery evidence

Presented in context.

WHITE WAVE Dance’s SoloDuo Dance Festival · Dixon Place · New York City · 2025

Presented to a sold-out audience as an interactive dance and projection performance.

Project evolution

A technical and choreographic lineage.

2018

Touching from a Distance

Zjana’s first live-stage MoCap system placed a dancer in real-time dialogue with a projected digital body.

View research archive

2020

MOCO ’20 publication

Portable Interactive Explorations of Motion Data for Choreographers, Zjana Muraro and Colin Higgs.

Read via ACM

2025

With Our Shadows

The excerpt was rebuilt with TouchDesigner and an Orbbec depth camera, then presented in New York City.

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