Playable Bodies investigates what happens when machines teach
humans to dance. Dance video games work as engines of humor, shame,
trust, and intimacy, urging players to dance like nobody's
watching-while being tracked by motion-sensing interfaces in their
living rooms. The chart-topping dance game franchises Just Dance
and Dance Central transform players' experiences of popular music,
invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement
styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and
archiving choreography. Author Kiri Miller shows how these games
teach players to regard their own bodies as both interfaces and
avatars, and how a convergence of choreography and programming code
is driving a new wave of full-body virtual-reality media
experiences. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with
players, game designers, and choreographers, Playable Bodies
situates dance games in a media ecology that includes the larger
game industry, viral music videos, reality TV competitions,
marketing campaigns, consumer reviews, social media discourse, and
emerging surveillance technologies. Miller tracks the circulation
of dance gameplay and related "body projects" across media
platforms to reveal how dance games function as "intimate media,"
configuring new relationships among humans, interfaces, music and
dance repertoires, and social media practices.
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