It is a rather daunting feeling knowing that after months of work, tasks and self exploration that I am very quickly approaching the end of my BAPP course. Module 1 and 2 have enabled me to explore certain realms of my profession, aside from just the physical act of dancing, that although I have had a small amount of interest I have never really researched. And for this reason I am rather excited (although desperately nervous...eek!) about what I am going to find out about my profession, myself and fellow dancers in the hopes of benefiting my own career as well as the future of others.
"The Role of Nutrition for Dancers and its Physical Impact"
My inquiry topic has gone through a lot of alterations and development since the end of Module 2. I have since established a better focus within my original inquiry topic of "Nutrition". I have decided to remove my undivided attention on the food aspect of nutrition, but instead explore what defines nutrition and what this then means to a dancer. This change has enabled me to broaden the themes within my topic:
Preparation
Time Restraint
Location
Availability
Attitudes
Emotion
Health
...(to name a few)
I am going to be researching into how all of the above factors may effect a dancers dietary choices, professional behavior or ability and emotional and physical well being. As well as hoping to discover any more I may not yet know about. My main inquiry question therefore is "What does nutrition mean to a dancer?" as I believe a greater understanding of this would be very beneficial for dancers such as myself.
Preparation
Time Restraint
Location
Availability
Attitudes
Emotion
Health
...(to name a few)
I am going to be researching into how all of the above factors may effect a dancers dietary choices, professional behavior or ability and emotional and physical well being. As well as hoping to discover any more I may not yet know about. My main inquiry question therefore is "What does nutrition mean to a dancer?" as I believe a greater understanding of this would be very beneficial for dancers such as myself.
In order to gain further insight into the mindset of others I intend to conduct a series of one-to-one, informal interviews with the following people:
Female Professional Dancer
Male Professional Dancer
Vocational Teacher
Mother/Parent
Chef
I do not want to merely interview those within the "dancing world" as I am of the impression from my own experience in training and performing career, that many dancers do not have enough knowledge about their own nourishment. My aim is to learn more about these peoples understanding and opinion of what nutrition is/ what nutrition means to them/ where this has originated/ how certain aspects of their career or life has affected their opinion/ how their life, health, well being may have improved or suffered during their career and why/What steps they take or need to take in order to improve their personal or professional health. Keeping an open mind about what I may discover in the process.
All of my interviewee's will remain anonymous as their identity is not of importance to my inquiry and the freedom to be able to speak without concern of repercussion from identification will hopefully result in honest, open and personal responses to my questions.
I will also be researching my topic through the use of literature. As I have changed my line of inquiry considerably I will almost be starting from scratch in terms of appropriate literature for what I wish to find out. After speaking with my tutor about research possibilities i tend to look further than books and broaden my search to all audio, visual and written works.
Finally using my own thoughts and opinions of the inquiry topic, and almost interviewing myself at the beginning and throughout my research process in order to reveal how much I have learnt during and conclusions I can take from it.
Joining all three of these form of research will enable me to identify any themes, similarities or differences their are between the opinions. From that I hope to create an artifact (of which I have not yet decided) that will present my findings in a form that will educate, advise and help other dancers like myself. As I do not yet know what I will discover I have also not decided upon my audience, other than them being dancers, as I do not yet know at which point of a dancers training or career this knowledge is lacking most and there would be most beneficial.
It is undoubtedly going to be an emotional 12 weeks (in every sense of the word)!
Good Luck Fellow Module 3'ers!
:-)
Female Professional Dancer
Male Professional Dancer
Vocational Teacher
Mother/Parent
Chef
I do not want to merely interview those within the "dancing world" as I am of the impression from my own experience in training and performing career, that many dancers do not have enough knowledge about their own nourishment. My aim is to learn more about these peoples understanding and opinion of what nutrition is/ what nutrition means to them/ where this has originated/ how certain aspects of their career or life has affected their opinion/ how their life, health, well being may have improved or suffered during their career and why/What steps they take or need to take in order to improve their personal or professional health. Keeping an open mind about what I may discover in the process.
All of my interviewee's will remain anonymous as their identity is not of importance to my inquiry and the freedom to be able to speak without concern of repercussion from identification will hopefully result in honest, open and personal responses to my questions.
I will also be researching my topic through the use of literature. As I have changed my line of inquiry considerably I will almost be starting from scratch in terms of appropriate literature for what I wish to find out. After speaking with my tutor about research possibilities i tend to look further than books and broaden my search to all audio, visual and written works.
Finally using my own thoughts and opinions of the inquiry topic, and almost interviewing myself at the beginning and throughout my research process in order to reveal how much I have learnt during and conclusions I can take from it.
Joining all three of these form of research will enable me to identify any themes, similarities or differences their are between the opinions. From that I hope to create an artifact (of which I have not yet decided) that will present my findings in a form that will educate, advise and help other dancers like myself. As I do not yet know what I will discover I have also not decided upon my audience, other than them being dancers, as I do not yet know at which point of a dancers training or career this knowledge is lacking most and there would be most beneficial.
It is undoubtedly going to be an emotional 12 weeks (in every sense of the word)!
Good Luck Fellow Module 3'ers!
:-)
