SIG’s
Findings on Pilot Interviews- A few fellow BAPP students, also ballet dancers
Why enjoy dancing:
·
Stage and
performing
·
Love and
passion
·
Music
·
Can’t
imagine anything else
·
Only thing
have known
·
Control
over mind and body
· Sense of let down if quit
Why ballet?
Elegance
Athleticism
Challenging and rewarding-
sense of achievement
Base genre of all styles
Style enjoy most
Short-lived career
Stimulations
·
Music
Þ
Portray
what music expresses
Þ
Inspiration
for Choreography
Þ
Sense of
freedom
· Interesting choreography
Challenges
·
Job
finding
·
Rejection,
casting
·
Injury
·
Maintaining
physicality- health and fitness
· Technique- looking as perfect as possible
Overcoming
· Positivity
· Keep fit
· Balance between training and free time
· Talk to friends and family
· Gym- endorphins, exercise,
· Eat well, Rest
·
Surround
self in same situation- moral support
Links to the idea of motivation
helping to overcome these sorts of challenges, and have been able to identify a
few of these factors. Now I would like to know, for instance, how to keep
positive. Find guidelines- dancers experiences, literature, blogs etc.
Motivation/Inspiration
· Feeling on stage- Endorphins
· Watching others, famous dancers, mentors- does
watching help? Mirror Neurons…
· Teachers as a guidance
· Friend’s successes
·
Music-
again, a huge factor!
Survey
Results:
Generally I picked up similar
answers to the interviews. Looking back at the two I realised some questions
were similar, and led to the dancers repeating themselves. I also found that
some written questions in the survey gave better answers to that in the
interview. One comment even stated how I should look at the wording of my
questions to promote opening up lines of inquiry instead of leading to/giving
answers I may believe myself.
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