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Dance Documentation and Computer Vision
Image credit: “Dunham Technique: Dunham walk—slow.” Video. https://loc.gov/item/ihas.200003863 ; Modeling: Nicola Plant / Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments: Dance-Based Approaches to Data. We are knee-deep into Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments, which has unexpectedly led us deeper into emerging practices in computer vision and machine learning. At the end of January, we’ll be discussing some of the…
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Mapping Movement on the Move, Ten Years On
In November, we were invited to the Newberry Library in Chicago to give a talk for the 21st Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography. The event theme was “Mapping as Performance” and we took the opportunity to consider how our theory of the map has changed over the past ten years of…
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Practicing Ethical Entanglements: A Roundtable About Thinking Forward in Technological Praxis
We are convening a conversation for Dance Studies Association with Ashley Ferro-Murray, Teoma Nacaratto, Ian Heisters, and John McCallum under a provocation that we’ve been thinking a lot about: “Practicing Ethical Entanglements: A Roundtable About Thinking Forward in Technological Praxis.” Here is the abstract: At the intersections of dance and technology, activism is often characterized…
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Attending the Dunham Teacher Certification Workshop
Kate and Harmony were so fortunate to be able to spend a week this summer with the Institute for Dunham Technique Certification at their Teacher Certification Workshop, held this year at the University of Southern Indiana. We observed (and participated in!!) classes in Dunham Technique, as well as teaching practicums and lectures on Dunham history…
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Toward a Dance History Dataset that Comes from the Studio
As the first strand of this project, Harmony, Kate, and Tia-Monique have been working in partnership with the Institute for Dunham Technique Certification (IDTC), and our three community facilitators: Penny Godboldo, Rachel Tavernier, and Patricia Wilson. This arises from discussions we had around similarities and differences between the Dunham’s Data view of Katherine Dunham’s repertory…