Slides: Dance Formation Creator

Project Description

Dance Formation Creator allows users to physically manipulate pieces on a board into formations for a dance, which are then uploaded into a computer. With this tool, there is no longer a need for the traditional paper and pencil, which can look messy and be tedious to use as the choreographer keeps erasing, making changes, or scraping a formation and starting over. It also makes collaboration easier because two or more choreographers can sit around the board and manipulate the pieces, rather than being constrained to a piece of paper and passes a pencil back and forth.

Once formations are captured into the computer, the computer can provide additional information about a new formation. For example, it can evaluate if a certain dancer moved substantially more than other dancers, thus making the formation change hard to execute for that dancer. This is something that the choreographer may not have caught until rehearsal when the dancers tried the movement themselves.

Dance Formation Creator merges the physical world with the digital by allowing choreographers to manipulate pieces on a board to exercise the creative process of formation creation, and also upload these formations into a computer that can digitally record and evaluate them.