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DANCE history research
Sylvia Roberts
sroberts@sfu.ca
Slide2TOPIC 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.”
Slide3Dance history – scope OF TOPICS:
Makers: Dancers, Choreographers
Significant works
Purpose
(ritual, cultural, social)
Context: time, place, participants
Form / Design elementsspace, time, force / energytypes of movementsnumber of people, relationships / formations
Costumes, Lights, Sets
Accompaniment / Sound
Technological innovations (e.g. recording, notation)
Thematic elements
Supporting arts (visual arts, music, literature)
Slide4By
Bboymor
-E - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15955577
Dance Consortium .(
n.d.
) Dance Timeline.
Retrieved
http://www.danceconsortium.com/features/dance-resources/dance-timeline
/
.
Slide5Generating 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
”
Slide6dance 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?
role of women in classical
indian
dance as performers, as symbols (objects of desire, representative of the sacred)?
By
Vineet
Radhakrishnan
Eesha
Deol
- Bollywood Actress.
https
://www.flickr.com/photos/vineetradhakrishnan/5417797912
/
.
(
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Slide7dance
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?
Slide8Slide9Sources for Dance scholarship
Primary sources
(experienced directly)
Autobiography / interviewseyewitness accounts / reviews
choreography notes
Performances
Secondary sources (Synthesis / interpretation of primary sources)Writings of researchers and scholars, including opinions, points of viewIn-depth discussions, histories, critical overviews
Slide10Finding sources (books):
Browse books by subject heading,
for example:
Dance HistoryBallet History
Dance India History
Dance
Europe HistoryDancers United States Biography
Duncan, Isadora,
1877-1927
Slide11Finding 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)
Slide12Slide13Slide14Using 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 sourcesCitation searching using key sources and google scholar
Slide15Citing 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.