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Teaching to the Whole Dancer: Synthesizing Pedagogy, Anatomy, and Psychology

Copyright © 2009 International Association for Dance Medicine & Science • www.iadms.org The approach to technique training in both dance and music reflects the educational models of previous centuries in which the teacher was an experienced professional and the student an apprentice, learning at the feet of the master. Traditionally, dance has been taught from this hierarchical, teacher-centere...

Developing a Virtual Ballet Dancer to Visualise Choreography

This paper describes the development of a virtual ballet dancer that is designed to help visualise choreography. Recreating dance not only involves how to achieve the steps but also the quality of the movement to express emotions. The aim is to create a visualisation system that could be used to understand the choreography with expressive movement when resurrecting ballet scores. Real-time comp...

A Virtual Dancer "Cindy" --- Interactive Performance of a Music-controlled CG Dancer ---

Various lifelike computer characters have been proposed in recent years [LCC’94, LCC’95]. In this paper, we introduce an innovative way of using a lifelike computer character to enhance the human-human and human-computer communication. We propose an interactive performance system in which a virtual CG dancer enables two players (musicians) to interact with each other not only through music but ...

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