Dance Touring and Embodied Data: Some Approaches to Katherine Dunham’s Movement on the Move

Bench, Harmony; Elswit, Kate

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“…Scholarship is still developing to look at digital dance both as a tool of innovative expression and as a methodology for interrogation. This book complements the work of other scholars that examine small screen formats, such as Alex Harlig's (2019) focus on YouTube and online fandom, and also connects more broadly to digital research in dance studies, such as the multiyear project led by Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit (2018–2021) that integrates the archival records of Katherine Dunham's tours with digital visualization programs. Boffone literally joined the conversation inside the 2021 special issue of the International Journal of Screendance (Harlig et al 2021), further interrogating the questions of what is “Now and Next in Dance Onscreen,” giving a taste of how digital dance continues to open the field and its intersections with other areas of study.…”

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RENEGADES: DIGITAL DANCE CULTURES FROM DUBSMASH TO TIKTOK by Trevor Boffone. 2021. New York: Oxford University Press. 167 pp., 11 halftones. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780197577684.

Oehlers

2022

Dance Res. J.

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RENEGADES: DIGITAL DANCE CULTURES FROM DUBSMASH TO TIKTOK by Trevor Boffone. 2021. New York: Oxford University Press. 167 pp., 11 halftones. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780197577684.

Oehlers

2022

Dance Res. J.

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“…Žinoma, skaitmeninės technologijos ir čia suteikė tyrėjui naujų galimybių (pavyzdžiui, skaitmeninio vaizdo filtravimas, automatinis vaizdo atpažinimas ir pan. ), tačiau jos savo esme buvo susijusios su jau egzistuojančiais ir taikomais konkretaus HM metodais, daugiau didindamos mokslininko veiklos efektyvumą nei keisdamos jo turimą "įrankių dėžutę" 2 .…”

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Laužikas

2023

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The massive digitisation of written historical sources, optical character recognition (OCR) of texts, and their online availability in recent decades have created new opportunities and challenges for historical research. The digital humanities research model presented in this paper is based on the information organisation paradigm and the application of digital technology-based methods in studying ancient travels. The model has been developed and tested using the materials of the project “Homo Viator: Travel Space and Travellers’ Experiences in Early Modern Lithuania”. The main problem of the research is related to the fact that one of the essential sources of information about ancient travel are egodocuments (letters, diaries, memoirs, etc.) that contain journeys described alongside other important life events of a particular person. However, travel descriptions form only a small part of a text of a given egodocument and are unevenly distributed among different egodocuments. Therefore, given the size of the text of the egodocuments and their collections and the number of egodocuments published in different languages, researching them as sources in only one aspect (travel) requires a significant amount of human and time resources. A similar problematic situation exists with other sources of knowledge on ancient travel: a massive number of documents published in digital form (including OCR), their texts are voluminous, and the text fragments related to travel, country descriptions, ancient travel routes, travel and mobility infrastructure, and travellers’ experiences are relatively small and scattered throughout the source text. The research model described in the paper is divided into two steps: (i) collection of the corpus of OCR source texts; (ii) collection of empirical data using a dictionary-based computer-aided [or assisted] qualitative text analysis method implemented with the MaxQDA software. The collection of the source text corpus is carried out by applying the general principles and methods of online search of scientific publications. The corpus comprises authentic, published sources relevant to the study (letters, diaries, memoirs, etc.) and scholarly publications about them, thus forming two blocks of text - sources and literature. The literature block is used as additional material for a more precise selection and interpretation of the source texts. A key element for applying a dictionary-based computer-aided [or assisted] qualitative text analysis method is a high-quality dictionary that accurately describes the concepts (categories) relevant to the research. Considering the specificity of the sources (the languages used in the sources and their translations), a multilingual dictionary (Lithuanian-Polish-English-Russian-German) was compiled. The structure of the dictionary consists of six concepts (categories) related to ancient travel: (i) journey (general description), (ii) road and its infrastructure (bridges, fords, etc.), (iii) means of transportation, (iv) resting and accommodation places (towns, villages, taverns, post offices, etc.), (v) people encountered on the way (inn-keepers, highwaymen, guides, etc.), and (vi) food of the journey. A set of keywords and phrases describes each concept. In the last stage of the study, the research model was tested. The testing showed that the model could solve the above problems that arose during the project.

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“…Existing scholarship on Dunham's travels, for example, focuses on several key cities, three of the most prominently featured being Paris, Port-au-Prince, and New York. By tracking Dunham's daily location from 1947 to 1960, Dunham's Data fills in travel gaps between prominent cities to tell a different story of persistent travel—a pattern the project team refers to as “movement on the move.” (Bench and Elswit 2019) The analysis of her travels reveals the median stay in a city is five nights, which when correlated with the other datasets, brings forth a transitory narrative that correlates short stays with the corporeal fatigue of persistently pursuing financial stability. The daily tracking of Dunham's whereabouts also exposes her regular performance at nonconcert venues such as nightclubs, highlighting the nontraditional venue's importance to company solvency.…”

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DUNHAM'S DATA: KATHERINE DUNHAM AND DIGITAL METHODS FOR DANCE HISTORICAL INQUIRY by Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor, and Takiyah Nur Amin https://www.dunhamsdata.org/

Rajko

2023

Dance Res. J.

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Dance Touring and Embodied Data: Some Approaches to Katherine Dunham’s Movement on the Move

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RENEGADES: DIGITAL DANCE CULTURES FROM DUBSMASH TO TIKTOK by Trevor Boffone. 2021. New York: Oxford University Press. 167 pp., 11 halftones. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780197577684.

RENEGADES: DIGITAL DANCE CULTURES FROM DUBSMASH TO TIKTOK by Trevor Boffone. 2021. New York: Oxford University Press. 167 pp., 11 halftones. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780197577684.

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DUNHAM'S DATA: KATHERINE DUNHAM AND DIGITAL METHODS FOR DANCE HISTORICAL INQUIRY by Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor, and Takiyah Nur Amin https://www.dunhamsdata.org/

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