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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
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.
Review :
Dance Research Methodologies has been awarded the Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award (2024) by the National Dance Education Organization.
"Candelario and Henley offer an array of reading possibilities that could be used across courses to introduce and explore research in its multitude of approaches seen in dance, simultaneously challenging thinking about research and practice... This text will surely become a vital addition to academics and students of dance." Monica J. Cameron Frichtel, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, USA
"Both inspiring and instructive, Dance Research Methods captures the diversity of today’s dance scholarship and offers an array of methodological possibilities that will surely lead to research trajectories yet to be discovered. Reminding us that dance theory and dancemaking practices are always intersecting and shaping the myriad ways that we create and present new knowledge, experienced and aspiring researchers using this text will enter into an ever-widening conversation about praxis inquiry, artful research practices, the importance of ethical decision-making, and the joys of pursuing research as a creative and artistic enterprise." Penelope Hanstein, MFA, PhD, Cornaro Professor of Dance Emerita, Texas Woman’s University, USA
"While some of the meticulous and rigorously curated essays contain pre-requisite standard approaches that are nourishing, there are many where scholarship itself is critiqued and stretched to include an invaluable selection of voices, grammars, registers, provocations, and contexts, making this a standout book for scholars in the pursuit of inclusive (as yet elusive) dance research methodologies. Imbuing this impressive assembly of work with a sustained call for pervasive ethics is a compelling masterstroke for our times." Jay Pather, Director, Institute for Creative Arts, Professor, Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa
"Dance Research Methodologies includes comprehensive and detailed step-by-step methods, conversations, and personal reflections on ‘how to’ do dance research across myriad themes. Providing a wealth of different approaches in an accessible format, it is an invaluable resource for dance researchers, from undergraduate to post-doctoral." Sarah Whatley, Director, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK
"The book functions like a set of hyperlinks that organize leaping off points to follow up in references and ideas across the diverse field of dance research. This wide-ranging collection highlights differences between 'research' versus 'creating work' or 'rehearsing,' and introduces archival research for where no archive exists, prompts for writing as dancing, ethics as research method, and other gems." Jonathan W. Marshall, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Australia
