Elements and Performance Criteria
- Select a focus for research
- Consult with relevant personnel and select a focus for research based on individual needs and perspectives
- Make an initial determination of the information and ideas to be researched
- Challenge own assumptions and preconceptions about the research process and potential information sources
- Select historical and contemporary sources for investigation
- Locate recordings of dance sequences and other documentary material to enable interpretation of movement material as part of research and analysis
- Take account of copyright, intellectual property and moral rights when planning research projects
- Conduct critical analysis
- Seek out and compare the critical views of others in chosen area of enquiry
- Investigate issues around the historical and contemporary production, interpretation and promotion of dance
- To aid analysis, place dance in a range of cultural contexts and consider how dance influences culture
- Allow the process of analysis to move in new and potentially unintended directions
- Present research findings
- Develop substantiated opinions and ideas in relation to research topic
- Take account of the diversity of dance in different historical periods and cultural contexts
- Discuss issues associated with research findings with colleagues and incorporate new ideas as appropriate
- Present findings to colleagues in a format appropriate to the research topic within agreed timeframe