This partly happened in tango in the 90's, when Gustavo Naveira, Chicho Frumboli and Fabian Salas came together to create a structural and kinesiologica base for something that previously existed more as "an intuition".<p>For each basic configuration of leader and follower and their bodies they looked at all permutations.<p>Then they constrained it first to the subset of those that are possible to do at all, kinesiologically.<p>Then further to the subset of those that could be danced with reasonable comfort.<p>And finally the subset of those that are easy enough to be taught to students and would work on a crowded social dancefloor.<p>None of this was done with the help of computers.<p>The most systemic documentation of this is possibly Mauricio Castro's book "Tango -- the structure of the dance".<p>But lately a lot of new books were published on tango technique; I may be out of the loop.<p>A friend of mine who's also a tango professional is currently looking into the feasibility of doing a PhD thesis on this topic.<p>He wants to use ML to spit spit out the full motion tree of tango.<p>Both to be able to document it automatically, i.e. using generated 3D animations, as well as to discover new combinations the manual approach used by Naveira, Frumboli and Salas, over a quarter century ago, will have missed.