Dance Research Methodologies Ethics, Orientations, and Practices

Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from around the world writing about a variety of dance forms and practices. This book makes explicit the implicit skills and experiences at work in the research processes by detailing the ethics, orientations, and practices fundamental to being a researcher across the disciplines of dance. Collating together approaches from key subdisciplines, this book brings together perspectives on dance practice, dance studies, dance education, dance science, as well as dance research in cross-, multi-, and interdisciplinary fields. Practice-based chapters cover methodological approaches that provide rich examples of how research design and implementation are navigated by practicing scholars. Dance Research Methodologies also includes a practical workbook that helps readers to decide upon, refine, and enact their research, as well as develop ways in which to communicate their process and outcomes. This vital textbook is a valuable resource for research faculty interested in interdisciplinary conversation and practice, emerging scholars honing their methodological approaches, graduate students engaged in research-based coursework and projects, and advanced undergraduates.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Dance Research in/as Communities of Practice Rosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley 2. Research Ethics, Orientations, and Practices Rosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley Part 2: Dance Practice 3. Introduction to Research in Dance Practice: Practice-as-Research Vida Midgelow 4. Choreographies of Presence: Improvisation as Feminist Practice Jo Pollitt 5. Community Dance and Collection Creation: Art, Health, and Social Development Across the Hemisphere Aurelia Chillemi and Victoria Fortuna 6. FutureBlackSpace: Weaving Art, Healing, and Activism John-Paul Zaccarini 7. Practice (or) Research: A Conversation with Eiko Otake Rosemary Candelario and Eiko Otake Part 3: Dance Studies 8. Introduction to Research in Dance Studies: Dance as a Humanity Thomas DeFrantz 9. Choreographic Analysis as Dance Studies Methodology: Cases, Expansions, and Critiques Harmony Bench, Rosemary Candelario, J. Lorenzo Perillo, and Cristina Fernandes Rosa 10. Global South Archives: Listening and Acknowledging Authorship Ana Paula Höfling 11. Cyphering with Oral History MiRi Park 12. To the Motion Itself: Towards a Phenomenological Methodology of Dance Research Nigel Stewart Part 4: Dance Education 13. Introduction to Research in Dance Education: New Pathways to Discovery Lynnette Young Overby 14. Towards a Decolonial Dance Research Paradigm: Ubuntu as Qualitative Hermeneutic Phenomenology Alfdaniels Mabingo 15. Ethnography for Research in Dance Education: Global, Decolonial, and Somatic Aspirations Ojeya Cruz Banks 16. Conducting an Experiment: How Quantifying Answers to a Question can Promote the Value of Dance Education. Lynnette Young Overby and Matthew Henley 17. Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self-Study and Dance Education Ilana Morgan 18. Mixing Methods and Approaches in Dance Education Research Matthew Henley Part 5: Dance Science 19. Introduction to Research in Dance Science: The Science of Movement and Choreography of Research – Evolving Methodologies in Dance Science Margaret Wilson 20. Mentoring Dance Science Research: Circling the Square– Edel Quin in Conversation with Margaret Wilson Edel Quin and Margaret Wilson 21. Thinking Statistically for Dance Research Gregory Youdan Jr. 22. A Dance/Movement Therapy Approach to Interview Analysis Tomoyo Kawano 23. Carving an Innovative Space for Dialogic Intersections: Dance, Disability, and Design Merry Lynn Morris Part 6: Dance Research Beyond Disciplines 24. Introduction to Dance Research Beyond Disciplines: Extending Dance-based Ways of Knowing Rosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley 25. Strange Bedfellows: Dance Studies, Academic Disciplines, and Truth in Crisis Janet O’Shea 26. Keeping Movement at the Center as we Dance into Interdisciplinary Research Adesola Akinleye Part 7 27. A Creative Workbook for Rehearsing Ethics, Orientations, and Practices Rosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley

Rosemary Candelario, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. Matthew Henley, PhD, is an Arnhold Associate Professor of Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.