{"685395":{"#nid":"685395","#data":{"type":"news","title":"On Pointe: How a Former Ballerina Brings Artificial Intelligence to Dance","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/milkatrajkova.com\/\u0022\u003EMilka Trajkova\u003C\/a\u003E grew up wanting to be a professional ballerina \u2014 and she was, until an injury closed the curtain on her career. But this didn\u2019t end her interest in ballet. While Trajkova doesn\u2019t dance anymore, she builds artificial intelligence (AI) apps to help dancers perfect their technique and improve their performance. Trajkova is a Georgia Tech visiting lecturer and research scientist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expressivemachinery.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EExpressive Machinery Lab\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E (IAC). She uses AI to turn artistic movement into data and bring more respect to the technical skills required in dance. Her work could soon be seen on stage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/feature\/unexpected-paths\/milka-trajkova\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more \u00bb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Milka Trajkova discovered human-computer interaction by accident. Now she\u2019s using it to create technology to improve fellow ballerinas\u2019 skills."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/milkatrajkova.com\/\u0022\u003EMilka Trajkova\u003C\/a\u003E grew up wanting to be a professional ballerina \u2014 and she was, until an injury closed the curtain on her career. But this didn\u2019t end her interest in ballet. While Trajkova doesn\u2019t dance anymore, she builds artificial intelligence (AI) apps to help dancers perfect their technique and improve their performance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Milka Trajkova discovered human-computer interaction by accident. Now she\u2019s using it to create technology to improve fellow ballerinas\u2019 skills.  "}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2025-09-29 23:45:02","changed_gmt":"2025-09-29 23:47:32","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678205":{"id":"678205","type":"image","title":"20250917_Unexpected-Paths_Milka-Trajkova-04.jpg","body":null,"created":"1759189598","gmt_created":"2025-09-29 23:46:38","changed":"1759189598","gmt_changed":"2025-09-29 23:46:38","alt":"female with her hair pulled up and wearing a black suit jacket standing in front of two screen monitors showing blue outlines of human forms","file":{"fid":"262201","name":"20250917_Unexpected-Paths_Milka-Trajkova-04.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/29\/20250917_Unexpected-Paths_Milka-Trajkova-04.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/29\/20250917_Unexpected-Paths_Milka-Trajkova-04.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13334738,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/09\/29\/20250917_Unexpected-Paths_Milka-Trajkova-04.jpg?itok=PU24vRBw"}}},"media_ids":["678205"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}