Kate Elswit
@somethingmodern.bsky.social
I work with archives + bodies + technology. Professor of Performance and Technology; Head of Digital Research; Co-Director, Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ). Also Moving Data. www.kateelswit.org
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…
vimeo.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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...
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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.
We know we’ve been more quiet on here lately. We’re hoping for a Monday miracle today, friends. We know so many of you are as well (for various reasons).
Although NEH has ceased to exist in its former glory for the past 59 days, tomorrow it becomes very real. (1/2)
Although NEH has ceased to exist in its former glory for the past 59 days, tomorrow it becomes very real. (1/2)
June 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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.
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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
Event: Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process
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April 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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
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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:
Defunded but undeterred – Extending the London Stage Database
blogs.uoregon.edu
April 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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"!
* 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
Review: Dunham's Data
A review of Dunham's Data, a data curation and visualization project on dancer Katherine Dunham, led by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench
reviewsindh.pubpub.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Honored to see Dunham's Data in #ReviewsInDH, described as "a revelational choreographic inquiry and model digital humanist intervention"!
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...
March 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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...
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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/...
077 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
A special edition of the podcast on Dance Data and Dramaturgy. Pannill, Brian, and Shayoni welcome Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit to talk about their data visualizations that are part of the Edges of A...
www.ontappod.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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.
January 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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.
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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...
www.cssd.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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
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...
www.cssd.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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
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Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !
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.
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !
Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !
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.
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Welcome to Bsky @whitney.org !
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.
November 14, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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!
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...
www.eventbrite.com/e/1079742923...
November 13, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Come talk dance data with me in Atlanta next Monday!
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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-...
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
November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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-...
observer.com/2024/10/art-...
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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
Please help me grow it?
go.bsky.app/JWVbyvP
November 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Ok, ok, I’ll be the one to start a Theater & Performance Studies “starter pack.”
Please help me grow it?
go.bsky.app/JWVbyvP
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-...
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
November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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-...
observer.com/2024/10/art-...
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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!
September 24, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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!
September 24, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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!
Reposted by Kate Elswit
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!
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!
September 20, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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!
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...
August 27, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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...
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...
Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham | Dance Research Journal | Cambridge Core
Tidalectic Un/mapping and the Performance of African Diasporic Imagination in the Repertory of Katherine Dunham - Volume 55 Issue 3
doi.org
May 24, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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...
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...
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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...
www.cssd.ac.uk
April 26, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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...
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...
www.cssd.ac.uk
April 24, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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...
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.
www.astr.org
April 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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...