Dunham's Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry, Everyday Itinerary, 1947-1960

The Everyday Itinerary Dataset is the first public-use dataset in the Dunham's Data series, a unique data collection created by Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) and Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) to explore questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history through the case study of choreographer Katherine Dunham.
It is a manually curated dataset of Katherine Dunham's touring from 1947-1960, encompassing Dunham's daily locations, travel, and performances every day over fourteen years of her most substantial period of consistent international touring. During this time, Dunham's personal and professional travels took her to 190 unique cities over 433 trips. This dataset tracks geographic location (with 97% of 5,110 days accounted for); and, less comprehensively, the accommodation in which Dunham stayed each night; the theatres, nightclubs, television studios, and other places where she and the company performed; the modes of transportation used when travel occurred; additional transit cities through which she passed; and whether or not Dunham was likely to be in rehearsals or giving public performances.

Dunham's Data: Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry is funded by the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC AH/R012989/1, 2018-2022) and is part of a larger suite of ongoing digital collaborations by Bench and Elswit, Movement on the Move. The Dunham's Data team also includes digital humanities postdoctoral research assistant Antonio Jiménez-Mavillard and dance history postdoctoral research assistants Takiyah Nur Amin and Tia-Monique Uzor.

《日常行程数据集》（Everyday Itinerary Dataset）是邓纳姆数据（Dunham's Data）系列首个公开可用数据集，该系列由伦敦大学皇家中央演讲和戏剧学院的凯特·埃尔思威特（Kate Elswit）与俄亥俄州立大学的哈莫尼·本奇（Harmony Bench）共同打造，旨在以编舞家凯瑟琳·邓纳姆（Katherine Dunham）为案例研究对象，探索让数据分析与可视化对舞蹈史研究具备实质意义的相关问题与研究路径。
该数据集为人工整理的1947至1960年凯瑟琳·邓纳姆巡演行程档案，覆盖其持续国际巡演的核心14年间每日的行程地点、出行记录与演出安排。此阶段邓纳姆凭借个人与职业巡演足迹，在433次行程中到访190座独特城市。本数据集追踪记录了其地理位置信息（5110天中97%的行程均有完整记录）；同时相对不完整地涵盖了邓纳姆每晚的住宿地点、她与舞团进行演出的剧院、夜总会、电视演播室及其他场地、出行时使用的交通方式、途经的中转城市，以及邓纳姆当日是否参与排练或公开演出等信息。
《邓纳姆数据：舞蹈史研究的数字化方法》（Dunham's Data: Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry）项目由英国艺术与人文研究委员会（Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC AH/R012989/1, 2018-2022）资助，是本奇与埃尔思威特正在推进的系列数字化协作项目《移动中的律动》（Movement on the Move）的组成部分。邓纳姆数据团队还包括数字人文方向博士后研究助理安东尼奥·希门尼斯-马维利亚德（Antonio Jiménez-Mavillard），以及舞蹈史方向博士后研究助理塔基亚·努尔·阿明（Takiyah Nur Amin）与蒂亚-莫尼克·尤佐尔（Tia-Monique Uzor）。