As a dancer & instructor of over 18 years, I think this technology is fascinating. I actually think it would be most effective as a teaching tool for my students. Often times, since the kids are so focused on the physicality of the steps, I find a disconnect between the visual and physical experience as they train, i.e. the kids don't realize that the steps/movements they make are in attempt to create visual shapes and lines. They run around the studio 'feeling themselves' (precious), but at the end of the year on-stage, the choreography suffers from this visual connection.<p>I appreciate that the detected poses and motions create clear pictures for what different parts of the body are doing.
Particularly for ballet, if I had access to this technology (in a way that was user friendly), I'd love to see the difference between ballet styles (Vaganova, Cechetti, ABT, ect). I think it would be much clearer from a students' perspective, to see the stylistic difference in lines, shapes and movement.<p>This AI reminds me of Happy Feet, where they took Savion Glover's movement and choreography and applied it to the animation penguin. It doesn't seem too far-fetched.
And lastly, for those who say this seems unnatural--dancing is unnatural to the body, hence the training and years put into it. So having an AI applied to it will only make it look more unnatural.<p>Artistically, this can be debated (as it has been), but in search for 'real life application,' I'd love to get my hands on this as a teaching tool.<p><i>sorry for the long post--this is my first time on this site--my boyfriend sent this to me & warned me that if i blabbed too long, this post would not be successful.</i>