Finding a focus
Finding a Focus
Upon completion of Module 1, areas
within my practice I would like to research further and gain a greater
understanding of already began to evolve. This sparked a plethora of options
for my inquiry topic.
- Why is there a stigma around male ballet dancers
- Support systems available to dancers
- How to transitions from student to performer
- Gender roles in dance
- How do the public decide ballet isn’t for them when they haven’t even seen it
- What is the optimum age for a ballerina - when to retire? When do you peak?
- Does the context a dancer performs in change the way they dance
- Does a competitive atmosphere change how a dancer performs
- Benefits of a large or small ballet company
- The impact varying performance contexts have on a dancers authentic expression.
- How the audience's opinion affects the dancer
- How much of ourselves should we be willing to change
- How a certain level of competition and pressure can make positive changes to the technical abilities of a dancer/performer.
- Abuse in dance
- Nutrition for dancers
- The government’s view on dance for British dancers
- Pay scale for prima ballerinas
The topic that seems to be brought up in various ways is ‘does the context a dancer performs in change the way they dance?’, tying in how the audience affects a dancers performance. Are dancers aware of this and what can be done to optimise a dancers performance?
Over the next
two weeks I will be exploring literature related to the questions mentioned
earlier in order to solidify my inquiry topic.
I'm not sure how broad some of your topics are but have you considered thinking about engaging audiences by breaking away from traditional ballet? I took my husband to see a ballet as it wasn't something that interested him, so we went to Sadler's Wells and watched one of Matthew Bourne's. Having a different style of ballet made the performance enjoyable for him. Also, from speaking to people, they don't enjoy going because all the ballet dancer's are perceived as 'stick thin' and they get frustrated that there is almost an unrealistic body type. Would people engage more if ballet dancers were a more 'realistic' size?
ReplyDeleteYou may have already considered this but I thought I would mention it as they were things that sprung to mind whilst reading your blog.