by hynes1 | Apr 2, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Thus far, we have read extensively about mapping practices and methodologies, and we have also held several Skype “dates” with prevalent scholars working on digital humanities projects (including Diana Sinton, Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, and Todd Decker,...
by hynes1 | Jul 14, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
How do you conduct research when the data has already been collected for you? I face this question often as I catalog the Ballets Russes data. Since Jane Pritchard, Sarah Woodcock, and Lynn Garafola have already collected all of the Ballets Russes performance data...
by Alexandra Mauney | Sep 26, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The person I have selected as the focus of my first research paper is dancer Bronislava Nijinska, who toured with the influential choreographer Sergei Diaghilev in his Ballets Russes dance troupe. My first step in research was to consult Oxford Music Online,[1] where...
by Natalie Kopp | Jun 17, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
While watching the 1924 ballet, Le Train Bleu, with the rest of the CURI team the other day, I was surprised at how light-hearted, playful, and funny it was. Particularly after watching Ballet Mécanique and other 1920s art cinema, Le Train Bleu was certainly a...
by Philip Claussen | Jun 8, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a French composer from Normandy; he studied at the Paris Conservatory (which he despised) and in 1887 left his music publisher and amateur composer father and his stepmother (whom he found unbearable) to live in Montmartre (link to map), the...