Thoughts from Summer and Interview Preperations

If im honest reading through the feedback was daunting and getting started was a scary prospect. However, after much dileberation I have decided to adapt my Inquiry title and re-focus my investigation. Re-reading my plan I have to agree that simplifing the task will help clarify what I want to learn from this module. I am going to evaluate and decide what is most important and come back with a better title and refined plan.

 

Although I aimed to compare experiences from my own and others including, students, professionals and teachers I have realised that I only really intended to focus on those who are training now. This I feel limited the potential scope for reliable results. Experiences are easily influenced by many variables. I failed to see that this would distort my underlying questions. Other professionals and teachers are the key to finding the answers I need to make sense of my inquiry.

 

Over the summer my employment at the dancing school ended, this is where I regularly taught and had hoped to study the dancers. Sadly this will not now be possible therefore my inquiry will have to change direction slightly. I still teach at LCPA, so this is now where I want to do the bulk of my research. Here I teach Body Conditioning to training dancers in a professional college. At the moment the gym at the college is out of action so this has altered my plans further. Consequently, I am going to start my research with the teachers at the college by creating an interview/questionnaire for staff who are willing take part in my investigation.

 

Here are a few  questions I could start with:

• Is previous dance training important when embarking on a professional training course and why?
• How do you prepare for the year/term/class?
• What variables do you take into consideration when planning a dance class/the term?
• What do you feel is the most important attribute in a dancer, or put the following into the order of which you feel is accurate. 1 being the most important and 8 the least.
• Technique, Flexibility, Strength, Physique, Image, Confidence/Personality, Performing skills, Ability to pick up choreography.
• Do you feel there are any other factors when training that need to be accounted for?
• Is there a dance discipline that you feel is essentual when training and why?
• What advice would you give to a training dancer?
• Do you feel dance is important to a Singer, Actor or someone wanting to work professionally as an all rounder wanting the to offer triple threat?
• What emphasis do you feel is put into dance training in a Musical Theatre Course and how do you feel dance should be distributed through the course?
• Assuming I know nothing of the dance world what would you say was the purpose of this course?
• How do you ensure targets are met?
• What classes do you feel most appropriately trains a dancer for their future and why?
• What skills do you feel are essential for a graduating dancer?
• Once a student has graduated what advice would you give to help them with their career?

 

I hope this is a good start. Im going to think about it some more, I have a few more days before my actual interview so feel free to comment everyone many thanks in advance! Aby X