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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Take someone out for coffee and watch when their eyes glaze over.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Skip the couch. You want a daybed.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Our essay "If the Archive Can't Consent: Reimagining Motion Data and AI Ethics for Dance's Embodied Histories" is out in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society! Available open access from doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The covered consonant really adds some mystery.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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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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…

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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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Event: Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process

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The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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:

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Defunded but undeterred – Extending the London Stage Database

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Honored to see Dunham's Data in #ReviewsInDH, described as "a revelational choreographic inquiry and model digital humanist intervention"!

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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...

Photograph of two large screens with white backgrounds hung in a large red-painted gallery with scattered visitors, with a banner below reading "our work has been longlisted!"

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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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/...

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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...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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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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...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Oh shoot! Discovering that placeholder page doesn’t link through to the project blog. It’s here: visceralhistories.wordpress.com

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Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments

Dance-Based Approaches to Data

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Come talk dance data with me in Atlanta next Monday!

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

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-...

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‘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.

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Chris Grobe @cgrobe.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Ok, ok, I’ll be the one to start a Theater & Performance Studies “starter pack.” Please help me grow it? go.bsky.app/JWVbyvP

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‘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.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

When doing data viz related to another country, maybe folks should understand the significance of colors in that place?

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

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!

Three people look at data visualisations in a gallery; wall text for the Radical Accounting series; proud researchers dressed up for an opening.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

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!

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Welcome! Oddly I’m finding LinkedIn as a more useful space for actual conversations lately, but still floating here occasionally.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

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...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

The burr grinder is a serious flex.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

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...

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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

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

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...

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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...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

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...

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Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

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...

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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.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Thank you! It was a moonshot kind of application so now we’re transitioning from pinch-me to actually doing the work.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

So excited to share that we have been awarded £5.6 million to found a Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity, with the idea that performance-led perspectives and promotion of social equity are critical to technological innovation both for the arts and beyond. www.cssd.ac.uk/news/central...

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Central receives £5.6 million from Research England to establish a Centre for Performance, Technolo...

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is pleased to announce that it has received £5.6 million in investment from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England Fund (E3) to establish a ...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

OA online preprints warp time. But my Cultural Studies article is now official! It's the long form of my thinking on the "coronasphere" and how breath shifts the scale of bodies in a pandemic. (Peer reviewer: I have major fatigue with pandemic content but this convinced me.) doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of...

This essay develops the concept of the ‘coronasphere’ to grapple with how breath shifts the perceptible extent of the body during a pandemic, and the implications of such a radically altered sense...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Nothing says "grant crunch" like pruning all the house plants.

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb... @laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!

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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Where do the digital humanities stand in 2023? *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023* presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environm...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Current work hotel room in Cologne is a turret, which is delightful.

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Call for Applications: I been honored to serve on the jury for the Just Tech Fellowship for 2 years now, going into my 3rd. The fellows we've been able to support are out here changing the world, and SSRC has been taking real good care of them. Are you next? www.ssrc.org/programs/jus...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I love what these dance scholars do and I’m excited to see they’re contributing to the Alvin Ailey show. It's a very different way to do dance history. In earlier work, they visualized the historical choreography of Katherine Dunham using computer vision and ML to extract data from dance footage.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Thank you, Kate! We've been doing the work for a year and a half, but it still feels like a surprise to be able to talk about it a bit more publicly.

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Beyond thrilled to announce our commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art for dance history visualizations as part of the Edges of Ailey exhibition in Sept 2024. R&D also supported by the AHRC under our Visceral Histories project. Institutional news item: www.cssd.ac.uk/news/kate-el...

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Researchers Elswit and Bench Commissioned to Lead Dance Data Project for The Whitney Museum of Ameri...

Central's Professor Kate Elswit (Professor of Performance and Technology) and collaborator Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) are leading a dance data project on choreographer Alvin Ailey, c...

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

New blog post on the technical challenges Visceral Histories postdoc Nicola is finding while surfacing motion data from historical dance footage. This connects to our questions around embodied archives, consent, racialized data, and AI visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/3...

Output of movement data extracted using MoveNet. Archival footage is Dunham Technique: Fall and recovery with body roll. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200003854/. Rachel Tavernier, teacher; demonstrated by Yasmine Lee with Adrienne Armstrong, Corey Baker, Yasmine Lee, Samuel Gerard LeSane, Nicole Chantal de Weever, and Keith Tyrone Williams. Mor Thiam and William Cepeda, drummers. Recorded in New York in October 2001.

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