The purpose of this study is to support the creation of contemporary dance choreography using 3D motion data acquired by motion capture. In this study, we have developed “Body-part Motion Synthesis System” (BMSS) that allows users to create short choreographies by synthesizing body-part motions and to simulate them in 3D animation. Users can use the composed sequences as references for dance creation, learning, and training.
Since the application runs on tablets, users can use it freely anywhere when they are creating dance choreographies.

Body-part Motion Synthesis System

Automatic synthesis of body-part motions
This system automatically provides various short choreographies called Units. First, users select a base motion and body-part categories. Then the system automatically selects and synthesizes body-part motions to the base motion. The system randomly determined the synthesis timings of the selected motions. This feature allows countless variations of choreographies to be generated each time.

Automatic generation of Phrases
Our system supports the automatic generation of Phrases to investigate motion connectivity. The connectivity between saved Units is evaluated using the similarity of starting/ending poses included in each Unit, determined by the distance between connectable poses. Based on this idea, a few Units are connected that contain a pose that resembles the starting/ending pose of the Units entered by users.