Dance Research Methodologies

Rosemary Candelario, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.Matthew Henley, PhD, is an Arnhold Associate Professor of Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Dance Research in/as Communities of Practice 2. Research Ethics, Orientations, and Practices Part 2: Dance Practice 3. Introduction to Research in Dance Practice: Practice-as-Research 4. Choreographies of Presence: Improvisation as Feminist Practice 5. Community Dance and Collection Creation: Art, Health, and Social Development Across the Hemisphere 6. Crip Choreography: Practice-as-Research in Disability Dancemaking 7. FutureBlackSpace: Weaving Art, Healing, and Activism 8. Practice (or) Research: A Conversation with Eiko Otake Part 3: Dance Studies 9. Introduction to Research in Dance Studies: Dance as a Humanity 10. Choreographic Analysis as Dance Studies Methodology: Cases, Expansions, and Critiques 11. Global South Archives: Listening and Acknowledging Authorship 12. Dilemmas in Decolonial Intercultural Praxis: Haunting La Bayadere, from the Archives to the Stage 13. Cyphering with Oral History 14. To the Motion Itself: Towards a Phenomenological Methodology of Dance Research Part 4: Dance Education 15. Introduction to Research in Dance Education: New Pathways to Discovery 16. Towards a Decolonial Dance Research Paradigm: Ubuntu as Qualitative Hermeneutic Phenomenology 17. Decolonial and Somatic Ethnography for Research in Dance Education: Portraits from West Africa, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Pacific 18. Corridos de la Frontera: An Orientation Toward Dance Education Research -Improvisation, Urgency, and Knowledge-Making from the Borderlands 19. Conducting an Experiment: How Quantifying Answers to a Question can Promote the Value of Dance Education 20. Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self-Study and Dance Education 21. Mixing Methods and Approaches in Dance Education Research Part 5: Dance Science 22. Introduction to Research in Dance Science: The Science of Movement and Choreography of Research – Evolving Methodologies in Dance Science 23. Mentoring Dance Science Research: Circling the Square– Edel Quin in Conversation with Margaret Wilson 24. Thinking Statistically for Dance Research 25. A Dance/Movement Therapy Approach to Interview Analysis 26. Carving an Innovative Space for Dialogic Intersections: Dance, Disability, and Design 27. Learning with the Avatar: An Exploration in Movement Design-Based Research Part 6: Dance Research Beyond Disciplines 28. Introduction to Dance Research Beyond Disciplines 29. Strange Bedfellows: Dance Studies, Academic Disciplines, and Truth in Crisis 30. Keeping Movement at the Center as we Dance into Interdisciplinary Research 31. Large Quantities of Small Data: Asking Dance History Questions with Digital Methods 32. Dancing and Storytelling as Indigenous Methods: Trickster Tales from the Margins of the Academy Part 7 33. A Creative Workbook for Rehearsing Ethics, Orientations, and Practices