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Mapping Touring: Remediating Concert Dance Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

Harmony Bench
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Abstract

This article introduces the digital humanities and dance studies project Mapping Touring, and employs it in an analysis of Denishawn's touring prior to and immediately following the company's 1925–26 tour to Asia. Situated within the archival turn in dance, Mapping Touring emphasizes the possibilities of spatial and comparative analysis for touring dance artists, with information about their location and repertory drawn from archival sources, gathered and stored in a database, and plotted on interactive maps. With Denishawn as a case study, I contend that digital mapping can make visible some of the implications of travel and touring for the circulation and spread of theories of embodiment contained in dance repertory.

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archivescirculationdata visualizationDenishawndigital humanitiesdigital methodsmappingrepertory
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , pp. 4 - 27
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Copyright © Dance Studies Association 2019

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