{{notability|date=November 2025}} '''Computer-generated choreography''' is the technique of using computers to generate choreography, particularly in real time, in the field of Dance technology. Notably, this field was forged by female choreographers, and remains dominated by women. Seminal figures in this space include: * Dorothy Jeanne Hays Beaman (October 7, 1919 – February 12, 2020) was an American dancer and college professor. She was a pioneer of computational choreography, creating the piece ''Random Dances'' in 1964 by using an IBM 7070 computer to select and order movement instructions from three lists.<ref name="book_Comp">{{Cite book |last1=Franke|first1=Herbert W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pt2pCAAAQBAJ&q=jeanne+beaman+random+dances&pg=PA140|title=Computer Graphics|date=2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783642702594|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="book_Rela">{{Cite book|title=Relationscapes|isbn=9780262134903|access-date=March 8, 2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3U4FuhDsxukC&q=jeanne+beaman+ibm+7070&pg=PA234|last1=Manning|first1=Erin|year=2009|publisher=MIT Press}}</ref> Her 1965 article, "Computer Dance", was cited by later practitioners, as was a 1968 exhibition of her process at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.<ref name="arch_arch">{{Cite web |title=Jeanne Hays Beaman papers|url=http://archives.nypl.org/dan/18505|access-date=March 7, 2020|work=Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030231546/http://archives.nypl.org/dan/18505|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="book_Maki">{{Cite book |last1=Zinman|first1=Gregory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpatDwAAQBAJ&q=1968+jeanne+beaman&pg=PA249|title=Making Images Move|date=2020|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520302730|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref>
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Category:Choreography Category:Algorithmic art