[ICPSR] From ICPSR - Dunham’s Data: A Unique Fragment of Dance History & Movement

[Linda Detterman]

Subject Line: Dunham’s Data: A Unique Fragment of Dance History & Movement

The National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture (NADAC
<https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/NADAC/index.html>) is excited to
announce the release of *Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham & Digital Methods
for Dance Historical Inquiry, Everyday Itinerary, 1950-53*. The dataset is
a daily itinerary of the choreographer Katherine 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. The existing and
forthcoming datasets of the project 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. This first release is a manually cataloged daily
itinerary of Dunham’s touring & travel, with 134 trips to 83 cities in 26
countries between 1950-53.

Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical
Inquiry came to NADAC from a three year project (2018-2021) funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC AH/R012989/1) and led by Kate
Elswit (PI, University of London, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
and Harmony Bench (CI, The Ohio State University). The project uses
Dunham’s Data as a case study to investigate the use of data analysis in
dance history and to explore the original dance history problems and
questions using innovative critical mixed methods approaches such as
geographical mapping and network analysis. Check out their research blog
<http://myumi.ch/Xe2GR> to learn more about the Dunham’s Data project.

To learn more about Dunham's data, please visit the study home page
<http://myumi.ch/AxgZW>.



www.icpsr.umich.edu/NADAC <http://myumi.ch/4pV1x>



Linda Detterman

Membership & Communications Director

ICPSR – University of Michigan

lindamd at umich.edu

734.647.0888
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