“False Start,” created in 2007, is a solo animated, choreographed, and performed using digital 3D choreographic animation software. With this piece, Jonah pays homage to the Jasper Johns painting of the same name.

Jonah's solo choreographic practice addresses the deconstruction of modernist portraiture as its inspiration, presenting a digital “maquette” which the performer mimics.

False Start addresses the erasure of the moving body and the trace of its presence. As the moving 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 a moving body in opposition to its animated double, bringing cubist dimensions of composition and surrealist uses of “the double” into live performance, often to surprising effect.