by: Every Choreographer on Callers Box
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors do si do once
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| 8 | neighbors right hand balance & box the gnat
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| A2 | 8 | gentlespoons start a half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends - ladles ricochet
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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This dance is a statement about copyright.
This dance was not written by Isaac Banner.
This dance was not written by anyone -- it was discovered by an AI model trained on the complete set of choreography published on Callers Box and therefore authorship/attribution is not applicable. In reality, it doesn't actually take AI to brute-force combinations of eight transformations on a 2x2 matrix until you find a correct end state. It doesn’t take a human, either.
Algebra exists with or without you.
This dance is not art. This dance is a mathematical equation.
This dance is original. This dance is also not original.
None of you wrote this dance.
All of you wrote this dance.
Congratulations.
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This dance was auto-generated using:
• a dance validator written in .NET9 using Claude Opus 4.6 and Agency Copilot, tested against the full body of work published with figures on Callers Box
• a dance fuzzer written via the same AI tooling to find all dances with less than a 25% difference from a given input dance across the same set of published choreography (Lisa Greenleaf's stated requirement for dance originality).
• the same AI model, trained on the full list of dances with figures published on Callers Box and instructed to generate a dance that fits within the common patterns for dance choreography using a fixed set of "glossary" figures, verify that the dance progresses correctly, and that the dance is at least 75% unique.