Dance Research Methodologies

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.

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

• Part 1: Introduction1. Dance Research in/as Communities of PracticeRosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley2. Research Ethics, Orientations, and PracticesRosemary Candelario and Matthew HenleyPart 2: Dance Practice3. Introduction to Research in Dance Practice: Practice-as-ResearchVida Midgelow4. Choreographies of Presence: Improvisation as Feminist PracticeJo Pollitt5. Community Dance and Collection Creation: Art, Health, and Social Development Across the HemisphereAurelia Chillemi and Victoria Fortuna6. FutureBlackSpace: Weaving Art, Healing, and ActivismJohn-Paul Zaccarini7. Practice (or) Research: A Conversation with Eiko OtakeRosemary Candelario and Eiko OtakePart 3: Dance Studies8. Introduction to Research in Dance Studies: Dance as a HumanityThomas DeFrantz9. Choreographic Analysis as Dance Studies Methodology: Cases, Expansions, and CritiquesHarmony Bench, Rosemary Candelario, J. Lorenzo Perillo, and Cristina Fernandes Rosa10. Global South Archives: Listening and Acknowledging AuthorshipAna Paula Höfling11. Cyphering with Oral HistoryMiRi Park12. To the Motion Itself: Towards a Phenomenological Methodology of Dance ResearchNigel StewartPart 4: Dance Education13. Introduction to Research in Dance Education: New Pathways to DiscoveryLynnette Young Overby14. Towards a Decolonial Dance Research Paradigm: Ubuntu as Qualitative Hermeneutic PhenomenologyAlfdaniels Mabingo15. Ethnography for Research in Dance Education: Global, Decolonial, and Somatic AspirationsOjeya Cruz Banks16. Conducting an Experiment: How Quantifying Answers to a Question can Promote the Value of Dance Education.Lynnette Young Overby and Matthew Henley17. Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self-Study and Dance Education Ilana Morgan18. Mixing Methods and Approaches in Dance Education ResearchMatthew HenleyPart 5: Dance Science19. Introduction to Research in Dance Science: The Science of Movement and Choreography of Research – Evolving Methodologies in Dance ScienceMargaret Wilson20. Mentoring Dance Science Research: Circling the Square– Edel Quin in Conversation with Margaret WilsonEdel Quin and Margaret Wilson21. Thinking Statistically for Dance ResearchGregory Youdan Jr.22. A Dance/Movement Therapy Approach to Interview AnalysisTomoyo Kawano23. Carving an Innovative Space for Dialogic Intersections: Dance, Disability, and DesignMerry Lynn MorrisPart 6: Dance Research Beyond Disciplines24. Introduction to Dance Research Beyond Disciplines: Extending Dance-based Ways of KnowingRosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley25. Strange Bedfellows: Dance Studies, Academic Disciplines, and Truth in CrisisJanet O’Shea26. Keeping Movement at the Center as we Dance into Interdisciplinary ResearchAdesola AkinleyePart 727. A Creative Workbook for Rehearsing Ethics, Orientations, and PracticesRosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley