Artefact

As I am approaching the end of my professional inquiry I have begun to produce my Artefact. It has taken me a long time and I had many ideas cross my mind before and during the research process of my inquiry and finally came to the decision to create a recipe book that encompasses what I have learnt in my research.

One could argue that their is a large amount of recipe books out there for athletes, dancers and anyone wishes to improve their health but the intention within mine is to focus less on food and project the importance of other aspects of a dancers needs for nourishment. The audience for my recipe book will be professional dancers who are mainly on tour. This is because this is what I am currently doing in my career and evoked my entire reasoning for choosing this inquiry topic. I am also of the impression that is very easy to create a recipe book that requires a kitchen, innumerable utensils and vast space but not so easy when you are limited to cold, prepackaged meals. However as I am not in anyway shape or form nutritional expert or therapist (although I intend to be) I will be making clear to readers that the recipes within have been created to explore more than just the food and in no way should be used as a dietary guideline.

Front Cover (first draft)

As this course has given me limited time to create and produce both the recipes and book I am by no means intending on producing work that would be ready for publishing. I am however using my artefact as an opportunity to highlight what I have been researching, what I have found and possibly create a platform for which to eventually publish after further work in the future. My artefact will consist of a handful of recipes ranging from cookies to tea that will promote the importance of love, confidence, rest and preparation as they have been my findings of what can be used in the definition of a dancers nutrition. "Love" for instance will consist of an Oat Cookie Recipe. The cookie will contain ingredients that can be altered by the reader to include something they "love".  I will be encouraging them to realise that the time and effort taken to make them should be appreciated as a sign of care and "love" for oneself, with the cookies cut into heart shapes to remind them when eating it and the opportunity to "share the love" with colleagues, friend or family as my research has shown that doing something out of love for others has benefits to both people.