“Body-part Motion Synthesis System for Contemporary Dance Creation” by Soga, Yazaki, Umino and Hirayama

  • ©Asako Soga, Yuho Yazaki, Bin Umino, and Motoko Hirayama

  • ©Asako Soga, Yuho Yazaki, Bin Umino, and Motoko Hirayama

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    Body-part Motion Synthesis System for Contemporary Dance Creation

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    We developed a body-part motion synthesis system (BMSS) that allows users to create short choreographies by synthesizing body- part motions and to simulate them in 3D animation. This system automatically provides various short choreographies. First, users select a base motion and body-part categories. Then the system au- tomatically selects and synthesizes body-part motions to the base motion. The system randomly determined the synthesis timings of the selected motions. Users can use the composed sequences as references for dance creation, learning, and training. We ex- perimentally evaluated our system’s effectiveness for supporting dance creation with four professional choreographers of contem- porary dance. From our experiment results, we basically verified the usability of BMSS for choreographic creation.

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    We thank Kanagawa Institute of Technology for permission to use a studio and a motion capture system. This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15H02793.


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