1. By: Alma Martinez and Jasmine Paulino
Dance Forms Software
By: Alma Martinez and Jasmine Paulino

2. Dance Form Software Pictures

3. What is Dance Form and how is it used?
Dance Forms 1.0, created by Credo Interactive, is software that specializes in 3D character animation which lets you visualize your choreography and capture movements.
Complete choreography of modern and ballet dances primarily.
It demonstrates entire dance scores with music integrated and is based on Life Forms, which is a motion capture and animation software .

4. What is Dance Form and how is it used? (Continued)
Each dancer is assigned a unique color, which the user can change if desired.
Records your own dance sequences on your computer.
Use the point and click function to’’ drag’’ dancers to where you want them, and even send files to others dancers.
Stimulates human movement .
3D character animation dance software.
You can customize the counts rhythms of your music and keep a database of information for each dancer in your group.

5. Dance Form Software/ Life Form
Create complete dances including the limb and torso movements of the dancers, it is possible to look at the spatial patterns created by using figures that move from one place to another but not animating their body movements.
Deals with more body movements than formation changes.
Works best with few dancers .

6. Who uses Dance Form Software?
Teachers: Can use it to teach their students to use technology in dance.
Students use dance form software by choreographing their dance.
Merce Cunningham is most famous for using Dance Forms Software/ Life Form technology in his choreography’s . Tracker’s (1992) was the first of his works to be choreographed with a software. Cunningham has stated that the program opened his eyes to new human movement. He explored motion capture technology to create décor for BIPED (1999)

7. Video Pictures

8. Trackers Chorography By: Merce Cunningham
Trackers was simultaneously sad and heroic it presented Merce Cummingham as a dancer/ Choreographer determined to remain vertical despite the debilitation of age.

9. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROmTHBg8Nw0&feature=youtu.be

10. Quiz Questions
What is Dance Forms Software ? How does Dance Forms Software work best?

11. Answer Key
It’s a software that specialize in 3D character animation which lets you visualize your chorography and capture movements.
It works best with few dancers.

12. References http://www.choreopro.com/Dance_Designer_s/47.htm
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