Artificial Intelligence and Choreography: Creative Collaboration or Creative Threat?

In recent years, the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly impacted the creative industries, including dance. Choreography, a deeply intuitive and embodied art form, is now facing both opportunities and challenges posed by AI-based tools and systems. This paper critically examines whether AI in choreography represents a collaborative force augmenting human creativity or a technological threat that risks diminishing the choreographer’s unique creative agency. Through a review of existing AI applications in movement generation, dance education, and stage design, as well as analysis of recent AI-dance collaborative projects, this study highlights the complex interplay between machine logic and human expressivity. Qualitative insights are drawn from interviews and digital performance case studies. Findings reveal that AI can serve as a co-creative partner when embedded thoughtfully into the artistic process but may also replicate biases, reduce improvisational richness, and create ethical dilemmas. The paper concludes by proposing a hybrid model of AI-assisted choreography that empowers, rather than replaces, the choreographer. This framework invites artists to reimagine AI not as a threat, but as a tool for new narrative and aesthetic exploration