# Computer-generated choreography

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'''Computer-generated choreography''' is the technique of using computers to generate choreography, particularly in real time, in the field of [Dance technology](/source/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](/source/Jeanne_Beaman) (October 7, 1919 – February 12, 2020) was an American dancer and college professor. She was a pioneer of computational [choreography](/source/choreography), creating the piece ''Random Dances'' in 1964 by using an [IBM 7070](/source/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](/source/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

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