When first thinking about this task. 2d, I did not have a clue what lines of inquiry to follow or that would or have really interested me. So to give me varying ideas I read others blogs and posts on what line of inquiries they were interested in. A few in particular stood out for me, these included Sandy Moffat's and Ceri Morgan's.
Ceri's inquiry I found very interesting and I watched the you tube clip this was based on. As I commented with choreography there is no right or wrong, however thinking about it now it can possibly be split in to good or bad. When taking choreography as a line of inquiry from Ceri's Blog it brought thoughts flying through my head with questions in relation to choreography, however I feel Cer'is blog does not take a specific route and is left open ended. To help me with my thoughts and processes I like to have a specific question or statement which relates to a path that the inquiry leads down. Looking at choreography there are so many paths leading from a variety of questions and statements.
- Where does the inspiration come from for a Choreographer?
- Is the music the key element within choreography?
- What makes a great choreographer?
- Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements.
Another blog that stood out to me was Sandy's with his line of inquiry, Does a shows celebrity performer effect the audiences. After reading this post it was not long after I wrote my blog on with my reflective writing task and they both lead me to my own thoughts and questions for a possible inquiry task. It got me thinking about the audiences 'we' as performers perform to. There are many thoughts and questions that stand out in my head that could be pursued a s a line of inquiry in relation to a performers audience.
What do our audience want from our performance, what do they come to see and why do they come???
- Do they come to see the celebrity star featured at that time? (linking to Sandy's Blog)
- Are they from a similar background, have they trained in the profession?
- Is it for the music, the style of dancing or the story told?
- Are they working as critics?
- Is it their first time, will they return?
Emma good discussion - time to use literature search and scoping out amongst own networks to find out more about the direction you want to take on topic - Adesola has written a blog on topic finding - also more blogging - how to these topics link to your teaching goals? as stated on your blog? or do they? what are you doing professionally these days?
ReplyDeleteThe question what do the audience come to see is really interesting. I quite often wonder (after watching something rubbish and hearing other audience members praise it) "Did we just watch the same thing?" It makes me think that you could put anything in front of people and as long as the music was loud enough and the lights were bright enough they would enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteMy inquiry is about the best way to train someone for a successful career in musical theatre. The idea about what are you training these students for is an interesting one. The audiences expectations of them must surely come into account? If the audience however think something is good even when it's not is it acceptable to train someone to a less good standard? After all no one will notice the difference.
Paula has made an excellent point (as always!) about using the ideas of others from literature to make you think more widely and then perhaps more narrowly about the topic. More, it will help you build up a wardrobe of words, ideas, concepts and thoughts that you might love one day, and want to send to oxfam the next, but all of which make your inquiry more grounded and hopefully more reliable.
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