CoChoreo: A Generative Feature in iDanceForms for Creating Novel Keyframe Animation for Choreography

Choreography is an embodied and complex creative process that often relies on ‘co-imagining’ as a strategy in generating new movement ideas. Technology has historically been used as a tool to augment creative opportunities in choreographic process, with multiple choreographic support tools designed to function as a ‘blank slate’ for choreography. However, few of these tools support creative authoring with interactive or generative components. Cochoreo is a sub-module for generating body positions as keyframes that catalyze creative movement, as part of the movement sketching tool idanceForms (idF). Cochoreo catalyzes movement sketching by using parameters from Laban Movement Analysis, an existing movement framework, to generate unique keyframes that are used as seed material for choreographic process. idF is a creativity support tool that engages with choreographers’ creative movement process by design. This paper presents the design of Cochoreo and evaluations from our pilot study with university dance students.