We know that touring is important for performing artists, but how do we better understand the connections between performers and the places they travel to? In Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry, our team (Harmony Bench, Kate Elswit, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor) manually curated datasets that documented the African American choreographer’s daily whereabouts from 1937-1962, the dancers, singers, and musicians who joined her as she traveled the world, as well as how she reimagined the places she traveled in her choreography.

For this presentation, we’ll offer an overview of the Dunham’s Data project as a whole and key takeaways, with specific focus on data curation, analysis, and visualization that accounts for Dunham’s multidirectional inspiration and influence.

Presented by Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit for Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry.

This webinar is free and open to the public.