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Not AvailableThe intersection of dance and artificial intelligence presents fertile ground for exploring human-machine interaction, co-creation, and embodied expression. This paper reports on a seven month four-phase collaboration with fifteen dancers from a university dance department, encompassing a preliminary study, redesign of LuminAI-a co-creative AI dance partner-, a contextual diary study, and a culminating public performance. Thematic analysis of responses revealed LuminAI’s impact on dancers’ perceptions, improvisational practices, and creative exploration. By blending human and AI interactions, LuminAI influenced dancers’ practices by pushing them to explore the unexpected, fostering deeper self-awareness, and enabling novel choreographic pathways. The experience reshaped their creative sub processes, enhancing their spatial awareness, movement vocabulary, and openness to experimentation. Our contributions underscore the potential of AI to not only augment dancers’ immediate improvisational capabilities but also to catalyze broader transformations in their creative processes, paving the way for future systems that inspire and amplify human creativity. 

In this demonstration, we present a holographic projected version of LuminAI, which is an interactive art installation that allows participants to collaborate with an AI dance partner by improvising movements together. By utilizing a mix of a top-down and bottom-up approach, we seek to understand embodied co-creativity in an improvisational dance setting to better develop the design of the modular AI agent to creatively collaborate with a dancer. The purpose of this demonstration is to describe the five-module agent design and investigate how we can design an immersive experience that is design-efficient, portable, light, and duo-user participation. Through this installation in an imitated black box space, audience members and dancers engage in an immersive co-creative dance experience, inspiring discussion on the limitless applications of dance and technology in the realms of learning, training, and creativity.