I asked Gemini to create a dance with certain moves. It tried hard but never got one that would actually progress. It was able to suggest ways to teach perpetual beginners--nothing I hadn't considered, but it did recognize what I wanted and offer reasonable responses.

I think AI might be able to organize a program into a good teaching/dancing sequence. I wouldn't trust it as the final word but it's likely to offer an analysis I wouldn't think of.

Bob Hofkin

On 2025-01-12 10:46, Laur via Contra Callers wrote:
That’s amazing and can’t wait to play with it. I have a similar situatiion
Laurie


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On Sunday, January 12, 2025, 10:06 AM, Diane Silver via Contra Callers
<[email protected]> wrote:

That's pretty amazing. I am generally resisting AI with every fiber in
my being, but this looks pretty benign. Thanks for sharing. 

Diane

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM Rick Mohr via Contra Callers
<[email protected]> wrote:


AI is invading our lives, but can sometimes be useful — for example,
ChatGPT is pretty good at reformatting contra dances!




In Philly we have mostly multi-caller evenings, where the coordinator
gets dance submissions from many callers (in many formats), creates a
program, and sends out the result. Sometimes the program looks like a
fruit salad of formats, but (OCD?) I like everything to be concise and
uniform.




See example below, where ChatGPT unifies dances in 4 formats — Callers
Box, one posted here, my website, and Bob Isaacs’ format. It took a
few tries to refine the instructions (and I only tried this one output
format), but in the end it’s a pretty amazing result from minimal
instructions in plain English.




Rick





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My Instructions to ChatGPT

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Please reformat the contra dances below as follows:




Format dance headers as e.g. “Title (Author) Formation”

If formation is omitted, use “Duple Improper” 

Format part names as e.g. “A1:  ”.

Eliminate beat counts for figures (like “8”).

Put a part’s figures on one line, separated by commas, no period or
spaces at the end.

And this is important — format as plain text, do not format as markdown.







Centrifugal Hey

by Gene Hubert

Permission: full   License: CC-BY-NC

| FormationBase: | Duple Minor - Improper |
| Progression: | Single |


Figures:

| A1 |
(8) Neighbor allemande right 1 & 3/4

(8) Men allemande left 1 & 1/2
 |
| A2 |
(16) Hey (PR;WL;NR;ML;PR;WL;NR;ML)
 |
| B1 |
(16) Partner swing
 |
| B2 |
(8) Right and left through with partner

(6) Circle left 3/4

(2) Pass through along (NR)
 |



Stars are Aligned
by Lisa Sieverts
BECKET, CCW

   -
LH Star

   -
RH Star

   -
P Do Si Do (on side)

   -
P Swing

   -
Whole Set Oval Left

   -
Whole set Oval Right

   -
F&B

   -
LH Star, on to the next, partners moving along the line




Trip to Trillium                 Bob Isaacs                  Becket-L

 

A1.      8          Circle L ¾

            8          w/Partner weave the line past
two                                          (1)

 

A2.      8          w/N3 square through three

            8          N2 swing

 

B1.      8          Robins chain to partner

            8          ½ hey (RR, N2L, LR, -)

 

B2.      4,12     Partner balance, swing






Fluidity
By Rick Mohr; September 2017

Contra, BecketCaller's Box

Level: Easy/Intermediate

| A1: |
3/4 Hey (larks pass left shoulders to start) (12)

Robins allemande left (4)
 |
| A2: |
Gypsy and swing neighbor (16)
 |
| B1: |
Right and left through (8)

Circle right (8)
 |
| B2: |
(With next couple) Circle left 3/4 (6)

Swing partner (10)
 |








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Output from ChatGPT

=========================

Centrifugal Hey (Gene Hubert) Duple Improper
A1: Neighbor allemande right 1 & 3/4, men allemande left 1 & 1/2
A2: Hey (PR, WL, NR, ML, PR, WL, NR, ML)
B1: Partner swing
B2: Right and left through with partner, circle left 3/4, pass through
along (NR)

Stars are Aligned (Lisa Sieverts) Becket CCW
A1: Left-hand star, right-hand star
A2: Partner do-si-do, partner swing
B1: Whole set oval left, whole set oval right
B2: Forward and back, left-hand star on to the next, partners moving
along the line

Trip to Trillium (Bob Isaacs) Becket Left
A1: Circle left 3/4, with partner weave the line past two
A2: With N3 square through three, N2 swing
B1: Robins chain to partner, half hey (RR, N2L, LR)
B2: Partner balance, swing

Fluidity (Rick Mohr; September 2017) Becket
A1: Three-quarter hey (larks pass left shoulders to start), robins
allemande left
A2: Gypsy and swing neighbor
B1: Right and left through, circle right
B2: With next couple circle left 3/4, swing partner









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