Professor of Performance & Technology, Head of Digital Research, Co-Director of the Centre for Performance, Technology, & Equity. Found on LinkedIn, Insta, Bsky
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Joined November 2006
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Beyond thrilled to announce our commission from @whitneymuseum for dance history visualizations as part of the Edges of Ailey exhibition (2024). R&D also supported by @ahrctweets under our Visceral Histories project @harmonybench @tiamoniqueuzor @mavillard cssd.ac.uk/news/kate-elswit-…
Join @harmonybench @profwernimont and me online today for the @MHS_Research Shapiro Digital History Seminar!
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-…
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Read about @CSSDLondon Professor Kate Elswit @somethingmodern and collaborator @harmonybench's Radical Accounting series of dance data visualizations, on view in the @whitneymuseum's Edges of Ailey exhibition, through February 2025 cssd.ac.uk/news/radical-acco…
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"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…
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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-…
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It has been a couple of weeks since Edges of Ailey opened at @whitneymuseum
whitney.org/exhibitions/edge…. @somethingmodern and I are so excited about our Radical Accounting series of dance data visualizations being included in this beautiful exhibition, open thru February 9, 2025.
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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-…
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Alvin Ailey exhibition at the Whitney is exceptional.
It'd be worth the walk over to see 1940s-1970s era paintings by Black artists. But there's much more, including a unique project visualizing and surfacing patterns in a dataset derived from 30,000 paper records. More on that later!
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Happy to share a new post and reel from @nicolaplant breaking down dance motion data research for #VisceralHistories with myself, @somethingmodern and @TiaMoniqueUzor
visceralhistories.wordpress.… @osudance @cssd_research @ahrcpress
Proud to be a part of this monumental exhibition! Come see dance data in the wild.
Tickets are now on sale for Edges of Ailey at the Whitney!
Celebrate the life and legacy of Alvin Ailey in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition exploring his choreography, artistic vision, and lasting global impact.
The exhibition opens to Members on September 19, and the public on September 25. 🎟️ Get your tickets now: whitney.org/exhibitions/edge…
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Director: Ezra Hurwitz
An expansive understanding of motion data rooted in bodily archives can offer a fuller understanding of the past while also demanding that we sit with the ethical problems that arise when data is seemingly detachable from its human sources: visceralhistories.wordpress.… @harmonybench
ALT We understand motion data within an expanded register that encompasses physical demonstrations, memories and oral history, movement cues and codified terminology, film and video footage, motion capture, and other means of accessing embodied archives. Motion data is both individual and collective, shared across generations through deep bodily time.
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📅 10 September, 10am-4.30pm
📍St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, and online.
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Kate Elswit will be presenting the conference keynote for the Dance Research Matters mid-point event: 'Making Dance Research Legible'.
A pleasure to be part of @JournalTheatre's roundtable on the current state of digital research, with @sbaycheng, Derek Miller, @erinbmee1, and @sissliu. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
Delighted to join @JournalTheatre's awesome list of Associate Editors. Though the 2034 end date keeps making me jump.
ALT Screengrab of Theatre Journal's list of editors.
We are looking for two amazing Creative Technologists for the new Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) @CSSDLondon. These are 5-year, full-time contracts, under the Technician Commitment to visibility, recognition, and career development. cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-central/c…
Grateful for many gatherings over the last weeks: at @MOCO_Conference in Utrecht; at @ResEngland E3 Community of Practice in Birmingham; & at @PSinternatl that @CSSD_Research hosted across London. Now hunkering down for our @whitneymuseum commission. See you in NYC in September!
Delighted to share @TiaMoniqueUzor's beautiful #dunhamsdata essay on Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham, now out in DRJ! @harmonybench @mavillard doi.org/10.1017/S01497677230…
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Kate Elswit retweeted
ASTR folks: If you track how performance practices move between people, migrate across geographies, and pass from one generation to the next, check out this working group with me and @somethingmodern on Big Histories: astr.org/page/24_working_ses…
Kate Elswit retweeted
Congratulations to @TiaMoniqueUzor for her open access article "Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham" in Dance Research Journal! bit.ly/3JUSH9d #dunhamsdata @somethingmodern
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We’re excited to announce 5x fully-funded PhD studentships at the new Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) @CSSDLondon! PTEQ pioneers research at the intersection of performance and technology with community and cultural industries partners. (1/7)
We are recruiting for the first two Postdoctoral Researchers who will help build the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity @CSSDLondon. Preference is for work in the areas of XR and/or access. Please make introductions! @CSSD_Research cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-central/P…