Practitioner Guides

Practical methods for dancers, somatic practitioners and creative technologists working with movement and AI.

Practitioner Guide2026-07-28

Choosing Sensors for Movement Practice: What Consumer Devices Can and Cannot Tell You

Movement practitioners considering wearable sensing usually ask which device to buy. The more useful question is which signal type the device produces, because that determines what can be measured at all. This guide sets out four signal types available in consumer and prosumer hardware — inertial, p…

Practitioner Guide2026-06-28

Evaluating AI-Generated Movement: A Somatic Practitioner's Assessment Framework

How to bring your trained perception to bear on machine-generated movement — the third evaluation axis that the technical field cannot yet measure

Practitioner Guide2026-05-28

Using Laban Effort Vocabulary to Prompt AI Motion Generation

A practical guide for somatic practitioners who want to give AI systems qualitative instructions, not just geometric ones

Practitioner Guide2026-04-28

Body→Signal→Visual: A Practical Workflow for Real-Time Movement-Driven Generation

A grounded guide for creative technologists building live pipelines from somatic input to generative output — April 2026 tooling snapshot

Practitioner Guide2026-01-01

The Body as Continuous Signal: A Practitioner Guide to Body-Sensing → Generative Visual Pipelines in TouchDesigner

Most interactive media systems treat the body as a remote control: a gesture fires an event, an event triggers content. This architecture borrows its logic from button presses, not from movement. But the body is never still between gestures — it breathes, sways, leaks stored tension into micro-adjus…