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Kate Elswit | |
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| Born | 1980 |
| Title | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucia Ruprecht |
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| Website | https://www.kateelswit.org/ |
Kate Elswit (born 1980 in New York City) is an American dance scholar and the head of digital research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Elswit is also Professor of performance and technology, as well as a practicing artist. She is the co-founder of the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity at Central[3], and is co-editor of the New World Choreographies book series.[4] Elswit also sits on the editorial boards for Performance Matters[5] and ASAP/Journal, and is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College as well as the college of expert reviewers for the European Science Foundation.
Early life
editElswit grew up in New York City.
Education
editElswit received a B.A. and B.S. from Northwestern University in 2002 before being awarded a Marshall Scholarship to complete a M.A. at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and then a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation dealt with Weimar era dance audiences and modernism, under the direction of supervisor Lucia Ruprecht.
Elswit was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow[6] at Stanford University from 2010-2011, and then a senior lecturer in theatre and performance studies at the University of Bristol from 2012-2016. She was appointed reader at Central in 2016 and later promoted to full professor.[7]
Moving Data Studio
editIn 2021, Elswit co-founded the information visualization and interaction design company Moving Data Studio, with Ohio State University professor Harmony Bench. Their project Dunham's Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry won the 2021 ATHE/ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship.[8]
Moving Data Studio's breakaway archival and information visualization installation on dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey was commissioned[9] by the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition Edges of Ailey exhibit in 2024.[10]
Performance and art
editAs a modern dancer, Elswit has performed with Hedwig Dances, Lucky Plush Productions, Felix Ruckert, and others. She collaborates with Swedish choreographer Rani Nair as dramaturg and historian on the Future Memory project.[11] Elswit was also choreographer and performer in Breath Catalogue, an experimental dance performance which combined choreography with live breath sensors and interactive visualizations.[12]
Bibliography (selected works)
editBooks
edit- Watching Weimar Dance. Oxford University Press, New York 2014, ISBN 9780199844838[13]
- Theatre & Dance. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2018, ISBN 978-1137605740[14]
Articles
edit- “Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-19”. Cultural Studies 37.6 (2022), 894-916.
- “Visceral Data for Dance Histories: Katherine Dunham’s People, Places, and Pieces” (with Harmony Bench). TDR: The Drama Review 66.1 (2022), 37-61.
- “Dancing With Our Coronasphere to Navigate the Pandemic”. Dance Magazine (July 2020).[15]
- “Ten Evenings with Pina: Bausch’s ‘Late’ Style and the Cultural Politics of Co-Production”. Theatre Journal, 65.2 (2013), 215-233.
- “So You Think You Can Dance Does Dance Studies”. TDR/The Drama Review, 56.1 (2012), 133-142.
- “‘Berlin . . . Your Dance Partner is Death’”. TDR/The Drama Review, 53.1 (2009), 73-92.
- “The Some of the Parts: Prosthesis and Function in Bertolt Brecht, Oskar Schlemmer, and Kurt Jooss”. Modern Drama, 51.3 (2008), Theatre and Medicine, 389-410.
Talks
edit- Making Breath Palpable: Theatricality, Somatics, and Technology in Uncertain Archives. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2018).[16]
References
edit- ^ "Professor Kate Elswit and". Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. 7 September 2023. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Congratulations to ASTR's 2021 Award Winners". ASTR. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Central receives". Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. 17 January 2024. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "New World Choreographies Editors". Springer Nature. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Editorial Team Performance Matters". Performance Matters. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
- ^ "Royal Central, Profiles". Royal Central. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
- ^ "Association for Theatre in Higher Education Past Awardees". ATHE. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Review: Edges of Ailey". Observer. 16 October 2024. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Edges of Ailey". Whitney. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Future Memory Trailer". Vimeo. 10 December 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Review Breath Catalogue". Wayback Machine, SciArt Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-10-30. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Watching Weimar Dance Paperback". Oxford University Press. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Theatre and Dance". Bloomsbury. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Dancine With Our". Dance Magazine. 20 July 2020. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
- ^ "Making Breath Palpable". YouTube. 27 June 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2024.