Transcript DANCE history research

DANCE HISTORY RESEARCH
SYLVIA ROBERTS
[email protected]
TOPIC SELECTION:
“FIRST YOU NEED A FOCUS, WHICH
COULD BE A QUESTION, AN ARGUMENT,
A POSITION, AN OPINION, OR A POINT
OF VIEW. WHATEVER IT IS, THIS STANCE
MUST BE STATED CLOSE TO THE
BEGINNING OF THE ESSAY AND THEN
DEVELOPED, ARGUED, SUPPORTED, OR
PERHAPS EVEN DISCREDITED ALONG THE
WAY, EVENTUALLY LEADING TO SOME
FORM OF CONCLUSION AT THE END.”
DANCE HISTORY – SCOPE OF TOPICS:
• MAKERS: DANCERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS
• COSTUMES, LIGHTS, SETS
• SIGNIFICANT WORKS
• ACCOMPANIMENT / SOUND
• PURPOSE (RITUAL, CULTURAL, SOCIAL)
• CONTEXT: TIME, PLACE, PARTICIPANTS
• TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS (E.G. RECORDING,
NOTATION)
• FORM / DESIGN ELEMENTS
• THEMATIC ELEMENTS
•
SPACE, TIME, FORCE
•
TYPES OF MOVEMENTS
•
NUMBER OF PEOPLE, RELATIONSHIPS
FORMATIONS
• SUPPORTING ARTS (VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC, LITERATURE)
/ ENERGY
/
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GENERATING TOPIC IDEAS
• OVERVIEWS
• INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DANCE
• MOVING HISTORY, DANCING CULTURES : A DANCE HISTORY READER
• NO FIXED POINTS : DANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• SOCIETY OF DANCE HISTORY SCHOLARS
• SERIES: STUDIES IN DANCE HISTORY (BOOKS AT SFU)
• DANCING: THE INDIVIDUAL AND TRADITION
INCLUDED IN DANCE IN VIDEO “MORE THAN 250 PERFORMANCES AND DOCUMENTARIES BY
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERFORMERS AND COMPANIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY”
DANCE WITHIN
INDIAN CINEMA
•
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE AND GENDER REPRESENTATION IN
DOCUMENTARY FILMS FEATURING INDIAN DANCE?
• PARALLELS TO CONCERT DANCE FOR THE STAGE? HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE / COMPARISON
• WHO
IS MAKING THE FILMS AND THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON
DANCE?
• HISTORY OF CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE?
•
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ROLE OF WOMEN IN CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE AS
PERFORMERS, AS SYMBOLS (OBJECTS OF DESIRE,
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SACRED)?
DANCE WITHIN INDIAN CINEMA
• DO YOU NEED TO FOCUS YOUR RESEARCH TO A SPECIFIC TYPE OF DANCE? OR A SPECIFIC
CASE STUDY?
• HOW IS DANCE REPRESENTED?
• IS THE REPRESENTATION HISTORICALLY ACCURATE?
•
THE DANCERS?
•
THE PERFORMANCE?
•
THE SETTING?
•
THE COSTUMES?
• IS THIS CONSISTENT WITH
TRADITIONAL ROLE OF CLASSICAL DANCE IN INDIAN CULTURE?
SOURCES FOR DANCE SCHOLARSHIP
• PRIMARY SOURCES (EXPERIENCED
DIRECTLY)
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY / INTERVIEWS
• EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS / REVIEWS
• CHOREOGRAPHY NOTES
• PERFORMANCES
• SECONDARY SOURCES (SYNTHESIS / INTERPRETATION OF PRIMARY SOURCES)
• WRITINGS OF RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS, INCLUDING OPINIONS, POINTS OF VIEW
• IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS, HISTORIES, CRITICAL OVERVIEWS
FINDING SOURCES (BOOKS):
• BROWSE
BOOKS BY SUBJECT HEADING, FOR EXAMPLE:
• DANCE HISTORY
• BALLET HISTORY
• DANCE INDIA HISTORY
• DANCE EUROPE HISTORY
• DANCERS UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY
• DUNCAN, ISADORA, 1877-1927
FINDING SOURCES (ARTICLES):
•
JOURNAL INDEXES FOR
DANCE
• ** INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO THE PERFORMING ARTS **
•
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
• JOURNALS:
• DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL
• DANCE RESEARCH
• DANCE CHRONICLE
• CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN DANCE (CORD) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
• BALLET REVIEW (IN PRINT)
• DANCE INTERNATIONAL (IN PRINT)
USING ONE GOOD ARTICLE TO FIND OTHERS
• SHRESTHOVA, SANGITA. “SWAYING TO AN INDIAN BEAT... DOLA GOES MY DIASPORIC
HEART: EXPLORING HINDI FILM DANCE”. DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL 36.2 (2004): 91–
101. WEB.
• MINE REFERENCE
LISTS OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES
• CITATION SEARCHING USING KEY SOURCES
AND GOOGLE SCHOLAR
CITING YOUR SOURCES
“YOU MUST HAVE A SEPARATE PAGE OR PAGES WITH YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
AT THE END OF THE ESSAY. “
• MLA CITATION STYLE (SFU LIBRARY GUIDE)
“A DANCER'S LIFE: ACT ONE.” YOUTUBE, UPLOADED BY SOLEIL SMILE, 1 OCT 2010,
WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=CA91FGV9LEO. ACCESSED 24 JAN. 2017.
DANCING PROGRAM 7: THE INDIVIDUAL AND TRADITION (DVD 7): DANCING: THE INDIVIDUAL AND
TRADITION. PROD. RHODA GRAUER, MUFFIE MEYER, AND ELLEN HOVDE. ARTHAUS
MUSIK, 1993. DANCE ONLINE: DANCE IN VIDEO, VOLUME I. WEB. 24 JAN. 2017.