An application of artificial intelligence to the choreography of dance

This paper describes an experimental computer program that applies the techniques of artificial intelligence to the creation of dance. Specifically, a user expresses a set of dance rules (in a special English-like “rule language”) which describes some of the dynamic aspects of a dance. These rules are applied nondeterministically by a “rule driver” program. The rules themselves are similar to those that form the knowledge base of expert systems. The rule driver embodies a heuristic algorithm of the type found in many artificial intelligence programs.

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