Art to SMart: An Automated BharataNatyam Dance Choreography

摘要

The ancient Indian classical dance form BharataNatyam (BN) can stay alive and dynamic by allowing innovative, experimental ideas. These comprise of a sequence of possible and legitimate dance steps, and it is estimated that using the main body parts, namely head, neck, hands and legs, more than five lakh dance steps can be generated for a single beat. Thus, dance choreography becomes an intensive, creative, and intuitive process. A choreographer has to finalize appropriate dance steps from among millions of possibilities. Though it is not impossible, the human choreographer cannot explore, analyze and remember all these variations among steps because of the large number of available options.