Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry, is a collaboration between Kate Elswit (University of London) and Harmony Bench (Ohio State University), and investigates problematizes the analysis and visualization of meaningful data in dance history. Through the case study of choreographer Katherine Dunham, the team has manually cataloged “daily itineraries of Dunham’s touring and travel from the 1930s-60s, the dancers, drummers, and singers in her employ during that time, and the repertory they performed. These curated datasets provide new means to understand the relationships between thousands of locations, and hundreds of performers and pieces across the decades of Dunham’s career, and ultimately elaborate how movement moves.”
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