Swarm Intelligence: A Novel and Unconventional Approach to Dance Choreography Creation

Swarm intelligence (SI) is a class of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the collective behavior of social insect colonies. At its core lies the property of self-organization, namely, the emergence of spontaneous order from the local, decentralized interactions of relatively simple agents. Beyond its traditional AI and engineering applications, among which Swarm Robotics stands out, SI principles have found resonance in the artistic field. However, the link between SI and creativity—the driving force of all artistic processes—has not yet thoroughly explored. This paper aims to bridge the gap between Swarm Intelligence and artificial creativity in the context of dance choreography creation. To this purpose, this paper proposes a starting approach for the automatic generation of dance choreographies for artificial agents driven by Swarm Intelligence mechanisms, along with the presentation of a paradigmatic case study.