Upcoming talk by Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama): “From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis” explores how dance + digital methods reshape data, embodiment & history 🗓 24 March, 4–6pm 📍 Strand Campus 🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

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From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis: Rethinking Motion Data for Dance Historical Inquiry - Kate Elswit – Embankment Room (MAC106), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Tue 24 Mar 2026 -...

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Our essay "If the Archive Can't Consent: Reimagining Motion Data and AI Ethics for Dance's Embodied Histories" is out in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society! Available open access from doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

Our essay "If the Archive Can't Consent: Reimagining Motion Data and AI Ethics for Dance's Embodied Histories" is out in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society! Available open access from doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

Over the moon that the portfolios from Dunham’s Data are here!! These limited-edition books (including a gorgeous visual essay) represent key datasets, essays, and visualizations from our born-digital research project. Harmony I are so excited that we made an unboxing video vimeo.com/1111500640?s...

Dunham's Data Portfolio Unboxing

This limited-edition book (including a gorgeous visual essay) represent key datasets, essays, and visualizations from our born-digital research project, Dunham’s…

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We guess that Monday miracle for #NEH employees won't be happening after all. Tomorrow over 100 staff and public servants of the #humanities will be terminated from their positions. It's heartbreaking and so completely unnecessary.

Join us Tomorrow, 4/30 at 11am est for an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process. This event is hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the American Historical Association, & the Modern Language Association. Register and find more info at: buff.ly/bfVNUhR

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that #NEH grant funding for "Extending the London Stage Database" was terminated abruptly earlier this month. You can help us advocate for the importance of this project and the #humanities more broadly. Read more:

Honored to see Dunham's Data in #ReviewsInDH, described as "a revelational choreographic inquiry and model digital humanist intervention"!

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · last yr.

* 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/dunhmans... #ReviewsInDH @somethingmodern.bsky.social

Things that make me happy today: our Radical Accounting series from the Edges of Ailey exhibit was longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards. The showcase links to @whitney.org's site where the time-based interventions are now archived www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/761...

On Episode 077, Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit tell us about the data visualizations in the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and Katherine Profeta tells us about her work with Ralph Lemon, the subject of a major exhibition at MOMA/PS1. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/1/...

It’s been over three months since Edges of Ailey opened at @whitney.org (one month left!) and I’m still in awe every time I see folks take the time to truly watch our visualizations.

Apply for the second cohort of fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)! Partners are Havering London, Vital Xposure, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, and Kinetic Light. Full details under "Work with Us": www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

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Apply for the second cohort of fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)! Partners are Havering London, Vital Xposure, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, and Kinetic Light. Full details under "Work with Us": www.cssd.ac.uk/research/pteq

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

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Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !

Kate Elswit@somethingmodern.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !

Kate Elswit@somethingmodern.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

The Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition catalogue made the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! It’s gold and has a centerfold specially made for our vizzes.

Come talk dance data with me in Atlanta next Monday!

Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · 2y ago

Atlanta friends! Join us on Monday 11/18 at 4pm to welcome Kate Elswit to @emorycollege.bsky.social for her talk, "Dance-Based Knowledge and Data Praxis." RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1079742923...

Collecting lovely things. Here is the Observer's review of our work: "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." observer.com/2024/10/art-...

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney

Don’t miss the accompanying performance series with a lineup that includes Trajal Harrell, Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley and Sarah Michelson.

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Ok, ok, I’ll be the one to start a Theater & Performance Studies “starter pack.” Please help me grow it? go.bsky.app/JWVbyvP

Collecting lovely things. Here is the Observer's review of our work: "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." observer.com/2024/10/art-...

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney

Don’t miss the accompanying performance series with a lineup that includes Trajal Harrell, Ralph Lemon, Kevin Beasley and Sarah Michelson.

observer.com

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

The Edges of Ailey exhibit is now open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Come for a gorgeous show that riffs on the aesthetics of Alvin Ailey. Stay for the Radical Accounting series of dance data visualisations. So proud of our team!

The Alvin Ailey exhibition at the Whitney is exceptional. It'd be worth the walk over to see the 1950s-1960s era paintings by Black artists. But there's so much more, including a unique project visualizing and surfacing patterns in a dataset derived from 30,000 paper records. More on that later!

New blog: 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.com/2024/08/27/e...

Still trying to find my performance people here but this is worth shouting even into a void: Delighted to share Tia-Monique Uzor's beautiful Dunham's Data essay on Tidalectics and African Diasporic Imagination in the work of Katherine Dunham, now out in DRJ! #dancedata doi.org/10.1017/S014...

We are also recruiting for the first two Postdoctoral Researchers who will help build the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity. Preference is for work in the areas of XR and/or access. Please make introductions! www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...

Post Doctoral Researchers in the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) x2 | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

pleased to advertise roles for two Postdoctoral Researchers, who will be core members of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s newly founded Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PT...

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Delighted to share the new site for the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ), with 5x funded collaborative PhD studentships in Digital Communities & Creative Health, Accessible Archiving, Digital Cultural Heritage, Creative Technologies in Public Arts www.cssd.ac.uk/research/cen...

Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breakin...

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Join our working session on Big Histories: Experimental Methods for Tracking Change Across Bodies, Generations, and Geographies in Performance! www.astr.org/page/24_work...

ASTR 2024 Conference - Working Sessions - American Society for Theatre Research

ASTR is a US-based association dedicated to theatre and performance scholars by serving hundreds of members globally.

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So excited to share that we have been awarded £5.6 million to found a Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity, with the idea that performance-led perspectives and promotion of social equity are critical to technological innovation both for the arts and beyond. www.cssd.ac.uk/news/central...

Central receives £5.6 million from Research England to establish a Centre for Performance, Technolo...

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is pleased to announce that it has received £5.6 million in investment from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England Fund (E3) to establish a ...

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OA online preprints warp time. But my Cultural Studies article is now official! It's the long form of my thinking on the "coronasphere" and how breath shifts the scale of bodies in a pandemic. (Peer reviewer: I have major fatigue with pandemic content but this convinced me.) doi.org/10.1080/0950...