Professor. Ohio State. screendance, digital humanities, performance studies. https://xitter.cf/t.co/9w0zbbQF8P https://xitter.cf/t.co/MrLEZuZXwE
Joined October 2008
- Tweets1.8K
- Following287
- Followers417
- Likes1.4K
Interactive data vizzes from Edges of Ailey exhibition at Whitney Museum are now online! @somethingmodern and I see this as a step-change in our digital humanities and dance history practice.
whitney.org/www/ailey/stream…
whitney.org/www/ailey/arcs/i…
whitney.org/www/ailey/globe/…
With special thanks to Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ailey Foundation archivist Dominique Singer, and Amos Machanic for voicing the demos.
Out now open access: "Radical accounting as method: interconnections across time, space, and bodies in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s archives"--bringing digital humanities to dance history with @somethingmodern Check out the data vizzes! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
So excited to be part of this research. Improving Motion Modeling with Dance Expertise for Archiving and Analysis: vimeo.com/1202865114
Excited to share the cover of Archival Entanglements, edited with Puja Batra-Wells, forthcoming with @ohiostatepress! Cover by Adam Bohannon (adambohannon.com/). The contributors are an amazing group of artists and scholars. More soon! (lnkd.in/eJV5pymK)
Excited that @TiaMoniqueUzor's essay “Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham” has been shortlisted for the Lynette Goddard Award for Research Excellence! dunhamsdata.org/Goddard @somethingmodern #DunhamsData
Thanks to #ReviewsInDH for including #DunhamsData in the most recent issue! And thanks to Sydney Skybetter for the review!
* Dunham's Data, a data curation and visualization project on dancer Katherine Dunham, led by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench, and reviewed by Sydney Skybetter reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/d… #ReviewsInDH @somethingmodern @harmonybench @mavillard @TiaMoniqueUzor
Excited that my conversation « La danse n’est pas une image ». Repenser nos méthodologies à l’ère des réseaux sociaux with Elina Djebbari, Mahalia Lassibille, and Laura Steil is now online open access!: journals.openedition.org/emu…
harmonybench retweeted
📢 Excited to announce Session 3 of our Early Career Mentorship Programme!
🎯 Topic: Your First Book Proposal & the Publication Process
📚 Led by Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli
🗓 14 Jan 2025 | ⏰ 17:30–19:00 GMT | 💻 Free online event
🔗 Register ➡️digitalblkdance.org/get-invo…
Excited that my interview of @TiaMoniqueUzor about her film The Noise My Leaves Make is now online with the International Journal of Screendance. doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v14i1.…
Tomorrow: Digital Histories of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Radical Accounting in Dance’s Archives. 10/30 at 5pm ET (online) @MHS_Research Digital History Seminar with @somethingmodern and @profwernimont responding. Register: masshist.org/events/digital-…
harmonybench retweeted
Radical Accounting Visualizations open at the Whitney Museum of American Art
dance.osu.edu/news/radical-a…
@harmonybench
"The three animations of visualized data charting Ailey’s impact on dance throughout time and space are an unexpected delight. [...] The animations are fascinating, quite beautiful and worth a view." @somethingmodern observer.com/2024/10/art-rev…
harmonybench retweeted
Join us for a virtual seminar in our #DigitalHistory series on Wed, 30 October, @ 5:00 pm (EDT). @harmonybench & @somethingmodern present, "Digital Histories of Alvin Ailey American #DanceTheater: Radical Accounting in Dance's Archives."
Register here: masshist.org/events/digital-…
harmonybench retweeted
Excited to present work in progress at the @MHS1791 Digital History Seminar with @somethingmodern on 10/30 at 5pm ET (online). @profwernimont responding. Digital Histories of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Radical Accounting in Dance’s Archives. masshist.org/events/digital-…