Kate Elswit

Professor of Performance & Technology, Head of Digital Research, Co-Director of the Centre for Performance, Technology, & Equity. Found on LinkedIn, Insta, Bsky

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

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 https://t.co/8lWgkYlqq2

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

Join @harmonybench @profwernimont and me online today for the @MHS_Research Shapiro Digital History Seminar!

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

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: https://t.co/P4ZkljceCw

[Research@Central @CSSD_Research]

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 https://t.co/O9eH76i3gV

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

"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 https://t.co/aYZB1QvmpQ

[MHS Research @MHS_Research]

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: https://t.co/a9kHyVOJwj

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

It has been a couple of weeks since Edges of Ailey opened at @whitneymuseum
https://t.co/3ej4NJRgYR. @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.

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

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. https://t.co/P4ZkljceCw

[Eileen Clancy @clancynewyork]

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!

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

Happy to share a new post and reel from @nicolaplant breaking down dance motion data research for #VisceralHistories with myself, @somethingmodern and @TiaMoniqueUzor
https://t.co/pqnuGgbk9K @osudance @cssd_research @ahrcpress

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

Proud to be a part of this monumental exhibition! Come see dance data in the wild.

[Whitney Museum @whitneymuseum]

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: https://t.co/TSwyfcHg3z
—
Director: Ezra Hurwitz

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

@joeparslow @CSSD_Research @routledgebooks Huge congratulations, Joe!

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

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: https://t.co/GQ5ikS8Yfh @harmonybench

[Dance Research Matters @DanceResMatters]

📅 10 September, 10am-4.30pm
📍St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, and online.
🔗https://t.co/WnQSXnCoZ1

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'.

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

A pleasure to be part of @JournalTheatre's roundtable on the current state of digital research, with @sbaycheng, Derek Miller, @erinbmee1, and @sissliu. https://t.co/0kMo4xrJCB

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

Delighted to join @JournalTheatre's awesome list of Associate Editors. Though the 2034 end date keeps making me jump.

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

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. https://t.co/j2o8RNJw5k

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

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!

[Kate Elswit @somethingmodern]

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 https://t.co/jUhLCLAjom

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

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: https://t.co/7maozePqSD

[harmonybench @harmonybench]

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! https://t.co/vFCLbk15vg #dunhamsdata @somethingmodern

[Research@Central @CSSD_Research]

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)