This interactive visualization allows users to explore data from “Global Architectures: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, City by City and Year by Year, 1958-89,” which is part of the Radical Accounting series commissioned for the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2024-25). We see AAADT growing from a small touring company to a global phenomenon, as they shared a living history of dance with audiences around the world.
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Radical Accounting: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Data as a Framework for Historical Imagination (2022-2025) is by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench (Moving Data), with Antonio Jiménez-Mavillard and Tia-Monique Uzor. It was commissioned for the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2024-25) with additional support from: the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, ref: AH/W005034/1); the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; and The Ohio State University. With special thanks to Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Performance data has been manually curated from archival materials and is publicly available from the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture.
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