The Choreographic Lineage Project

Choreographic Lineage is an interactive, web-based genealogical network illustrating connections between dance artists, their teachers, their students, their collaborators and people who they were influenced by. Part social network and part archive, Choreographic Lineage collects, preserves, analyzes, and makes accessible dance lineage: who dancers have studied under, danced in the work of, collaborated with and have been influenced by. Choreographic Lineage is intended as a global resource for investigating artistic influences, career paths, choreographic connections, and complex and obscure relationships. A broader goal of the project is to develop a template that can be utilized in other disciplines, from music to physics, to capture their own lineage.

Contribute your lineage at:   https://webprod.cse.buffalo.edu/choreographiclineage/


The digital dance access working group

https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/danceprogress/


Publications

Integrating Compositional Forms into Technique Class
Dance Education in Practice. 6:4, 16-22. 2020

Digital Dance Access Process Blog
https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/danceprogress/one-educators-response-to-the-gap-in-online-dance-resources/

Developing the Dance Artist in Technique Class: The Alteration Task
Journal of Dance Education.  (12)1: 14-20. 2012.  20 pages in manuscript form.

Body and Drum, CD for Modern Dance Technique Class, ©2010
Melanie Aceto: Music direction, class format, production and marketing
Joe Thomas:  Percussionist 

Over 200 copies sold: UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Taiwan and Hungary and the U.S. territory the Virgin Islands.  Sold by: Asgard Productions (www.asgardprod.com) and Dance Class Music/Jay Distributors (www.danceclassmusic.com)

Body and Drum comprises 14 percussion improvisations for a complete modern dance class including floor and standing warm-ups, phrase work, and small and large jumps. The musical material is ideal for classes based in the Humphrey-Weidman movement style. The CD includes ¾ rhythms for leg swings, body swings, and a track to accompany the Weidman hop series. Each track has a clear 2 or 4 measure introduction with the tambourine often holding the downbeat. 

 Looking In, Looking Out: Perspectives on Entering the Academy. Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies: Entering the Academy. Society of Dance History Scholars.  Vol. 28.1 (2008): 23 – 25.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2019
Women in Dance Leadership Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Envisioning Digital Dance Spaces for Diversity and Inclusion panel presentation. October 2019

Dancing Digitally 3-Day Symposium, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Invited participant among 18 leaders in the field of dance including scholars, educators, choreographers, archivists and filmmakers.

2016
National Dance Education Organization Conference, Washington, DC
Presented the Choreographic Lineage project.

Digital Scholarship Week, University at Buffalo
Presented the Choreographic Lineage project.

Hard Coded Humanities Conference, University of Rochester.
Presented the Choreographic Lineage project.  

2014
National Dance Education Organization, Chicago, IL
The Choreographic Lineage Resource: Collaboratively Created, Globally Sourced

Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars, Iowa City, IA
Choreographic Lineage: A Global Access and Preservation Framework

2012
DANCE 2050
National Dance Education Organization, Philadelphia, PA

2010
National Dance Education Organization, Tempe, AZ
Integrating Choreographic Tools and Structures into Technique Class
Workshop

2009
National Dance Education Organization, New York, NY
Teaching Dance Composition: Investigating the Teaching of Music Composition as a Model
Paper Presentation

Arts in Healthcare International Conference, Buffalo, NY
We Are Forget, Quintet to We Are Forget by poet Gary Glazner
Paper Presentation

National Dance Education Organization, SUNY at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Surpassing the Politics: Thriving at Auditions - Tools for a Competitive Field
1.5 hour workshop

2006
National Dance Education Organization, Brockport, NY
Lincoln Center Institute Model – Aesthetic Education
1.5 hour workshop

American College Dance Festival, University at Buffalo – Host, University at Buffalo
Expanding Dynamic Range
1.5 hour workshop

FUNDING

  • State University of New York Innovative Instruction Technology Grant

  • Technē Institute, University at Buffalo

  • IMPACT Initiative (Innovative Micro-Programs Accelerating Collaboration in Themes), University at Buffalo

  • Digital Humanities Initiative, University at Buffalo

  • Canadian-American Studies Grant, University at Buffalo

  • Buffalo Arts Council

  • UB 2020 Scholars Fund