Webinar Alert: Curating and Visualizing Inspiration through Data: The Places and People that Connect Katherine Dunham’s Repertory
Date: February 15, 1pm ET
We know that touring is important for performing artists, but how do we better understand the connections between performers and the places they travel to? In Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry, our team (Harmony Bench, Kate Elswit, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor) manually curated datasets that documented the African American choreographer’s daily whereabouts from 1937-1962, the dancers, singers, and musicians who joined her as she travelled the world, as well as how she reimagined the places she travelled in her choreography. For this presentation, we’ll offer an overview of the Dunham’s Data project as a whole and key takeaways, with specific focus on data curation, analysis, and visualization that accounts for Dunham’s multidirectional inspiration and influence.
Presented by Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit for Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry
This webinar is free and open to the public.
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Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) and Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) have been collaboratively developing a digital humanities practice since 2013. We recently concluded the award-winning project Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry (2018-22), about the questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance. Our current research, Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments: Dance-Based Approaches to Data (2022-25), unpicks many of the questions that have arisen along the way about how to modify digital methods to better engage with the dance-based knowledge practices that underlie dance history, and the implications for broader approaches to bodies in the critical digital humanities. We are also now exploring how such work might change public engagement with dance history. |
Jan 24, 2023