Dunham's Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry

邓纳姆的数据：凯瑟琳邓纳姆和舞蹈历史调查的数字方法

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R012989/1
负责人：
Kate Elswit
金额：
$ 73.33万
依托单位：
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR012989%2F1
关键词：
Dunham Data Katherine Digital Methods

项目摘要

Dunham's Data pioneers the use of data analysis in dance history through a project that centres around the case study of Katherine Dunham (1909-2006). The African American choreographer, anthropologist, teacher, curator, and author had a profound influence on dance internationally. As a choreographer and performer, she was involved with Broadway shows, operas, revues, Hollywood films, and modern concert dance. As a cultural operator she worked for and with groups ranging from important African American organizations to the United States Army, and she was also employed by both the writing and theatre arms of the Works Progress Administration. As a scholar, she contributed to the development of participant-observer ethnographic methods, and her work also anticipates the contemporary phenomenon of practice-based research. Her curatorial and administrative work ranges from curating festivals in Dakar, to building multiple cultural institutions, namely the Dunham School in New York and the Katherine Dunham Museum and Children's Workshop in St. Louis.Dunham is an exemplary figure for analysing the ways dance moves across both geographical locations and networks of cultural, artistic, and financial capital. In addition to working across many diverse contexts, she spent over one third of her life on tour. The scale and distribution of datapoints necessary to research the transnational circulation of an artist like Dunham pose a challenge for traditional scholarly approaches. Thus, tracing such global movement requires new scholarly tools. For this project, we construct digital maps that track Dunham's travel undertaken as a touring artist as well as the ways in which her works represented place. We graph the networks Dunham built across people and institutions as she conducted ethnographic research, choreographed dances, created a dance technique, and participated in social justice movements. Using such digital research methods and data visualization in the context of dance history can catalyse a better understanding of how dance movements are shared and circulated among people and continents, and the networks of support and influence that undergird artistic and economic success. In so doing we ultimately ask how dance moves between places, and how the world is imagined in dance.At the same time as we investigate the mobility of this particular historical figure, we also address the scholarly concerns that make collecting, analysing, and visualizing data meaningful for dance historical inquiry. Digital methods have altered the landscape of most humanities and arts disciplines. However, the field of dance studies has not yet realized how it can benefit from these analytic approaches, in particular for historical work, and what it can contribute to interdisciplinary conversations. Therefore, this project is not only devoted to the specific line of research regarding Dunham, but also to the original problems and questions of dance history that can be advanced through an innovative critical mixed methods approach that includes geographical mapping and network analysis. The project scope is extended through knowledge exchange collaborations with international academic partner projects, as well as through UK industry partnerships with the Victoria & Albert Museum and One Dance UK's Dance of the African Diaspora.

邓纳姆（Dunham）的数据开拓者通过一个围绕凯瑟琳·邓纳姆（Katherine Dunham）的案例研究（1909-2006）的案例研究的项目来使用数据分析。非裔美国人编舞，人类学家，老师，策展人和作家对国际舞蹈产生了深远的影响。作为编舞和表演者，她参与了百老汇演出，歌剧，评论，好莱坞电影和现代音乐会舞蹈。作为一名文化经营者，她在工作和团体中工作，从重要的非洲裔美国组织到美国军队，她也受到了工程进步管理局的写作和戏剧武器的雇用。作为学者，她为参与者观察者的民族志方法的发展做出了贡献，她的工作也预期了基于实践的研究的当代现象。她的策展和行政工作的范围从达卡（Dakar）的策划节日到建立多个文化机构，即纽约的邓纳姆学校（Dunham School），凯瑟琳·邓纳姆（Katherine Dunham）博物馆和圣路易斯的儿童工作室。Dunham是一个典型的人物，用于分析舞蹈跨越地理位置和艺术网络的舞蹈方式，以及艺术，艺术和财务资料。除了在许多不同的环境中工作外，她一生都在巡回演出中度过了三分之一。研究艺术家像邓纳姆这样的艺术家跨国循环所需的数据标准和分布对传统的学术方法构成了挑战。因此，追踪这种全球运动需要新的学术工具。对于这个项目，我们构建了数字地图，跟踪邓纳姆（Dunham）作为巡回演出艺术家的旅行以及她的作品所代表的地方的旅行。我们将邓纳姆（Dunham）的网络绘制在人种志研究，编排舞蹈，创造舞蹈技巧并参与社会正义运动时，杜纳姆（Dunham）跨越了人和机构。在舞蹈历史的背景下，使用这种数字研究方法和数据可视化可以更好地理解人们在人们和大陆之间如何共享和分发舞蹈运动，以及支持和影响的网络，从而获得了艺术和经济成功。在这样做时，我们最终询问舞蹈之间是如何在舞蹈中的舞蹈之间以及如何想象世界的。同时，在我们调查了这个特定历史人物的流动性时，我们还解决了学术界的关注，这些问题使收集，分析和可视化数据对舞蹈历史探究有意义。数字方法改变了大多数人文和艺术学科的景观。但是，舞蹈研究领域尚未意识到它如何从这些分析方法中受益，尤其是历史工作，以及它可以促进跨学科对话的原因。因此，该项目不仅专门研究有关邓纳姆（Dunham）的特定研究线，而且还致力于通过包括地理映射和网络分析的创新关键混合方法方法来提出的舞蹈历史的原始问题和问题。通过与国际学术合作伙伴项目的知识交流合作以及与维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆的英国行业合作伙伴关系以及一个英国英国舞蹈舞蹈舞蹈舞蹈，扩大了项目范围。