Moving Bodies, Moving Culture (Kate Elswit, PI, 2014-16) was an exploratory project that experimented with the potential for mapping and other visualization strategies to help scholars better understand the role of infrastructures in international dance touring. All data was manually curated from varied print archival materials. These explorations were archived as a series of blog posts, the majority of which come from a series of visualizations based on the 1941 South American tour of American Ballet Caravan. Moving Bodies, Moving Culture was supported by a Digital Humanities Summer Research Grant from the University of Bristol.
Associated Publications
Where more than one author is listed, publications are equally co-authored and the name order is alphabetical.
- Bench, Harmony and Kate Elswit. “Mapping Movement on the Move: Dance Touring and Digital Methods.” Theatre Journal 68.4 (2016): 575-596. https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2016.0107
- Elswit, Kate (2014-16) Moving Bodies, Moving Culture blog posts:
- “Mapping Touring through the Dancers' Eyes, Redux” (2016);
- “Mapping Tours through the Dancers' Eyes” (2015);
- “Mapping a More Distributed Picture of Exchange: ABC Traveler Demographics” (2015);
- “Colliding with Other Datasets” (2015);
- “Historical Basemaps” (2015);
- “Merging Tables and Layering Maps” (2015);
- “Getting an Outside Eye” (2015);
- “Animating Performances on Tour with CartoDB” (2015);
- “Returning to Palladio” (2015);
- “American Ballet Caravan Intro, Part 2: More Datasets” (2015);
- “American Ballet Caravan Intro: Identifying Datasets” (2015); and
- “Ballet, Digital History, and the Cold War: Visualizing the Labor of Dance Touring” (2014).
Sponsor
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Consultants and Research Assistants
Consultants
- Mike Migurski, map specialist
- Eric Andrew Sherman, map specialist
Research Assistants
- Elisa Davies
- Lucy Kerr