Hello :)
After 7 amazing weeks in Greece (Rhodes and Kos) doing my first dance job I am back in Austria. I got back two weeks ago but because I still have so many things to organize and some jobs are going on, I said to myself: Right Linda...you need to sit down, and do something for uni, because it's your last module and you need to keep going! Also because I am going to Norway on saturday I thought: Now it's the time to find some literature for your inquiry!
Last tuesday Cassie and me had a really good skype session with Paula.
Paula has a really good slide show on her blog and her second page is:
Points to get out of the session:
- thinking creatively
- progress on your practitioner research and analysis task
- an idea about how to draft the critical review
- ideas about how to communicate the inquiry and continuing to network
This was the first thing I have written down in my notebook, because I think they are very useful bullet points and covered all of them during our skype session.
Paula asked us where we are with our inquiry and I said that I started doing my interviews with the professional musical performers, which I am really interested about because at the moment I have interviewed two performers and I said to Paula that I could listen to their stories a whole day. For me it is so interesting to hear what they have already experienced in their lives.
Paula also mentioned the term 'coding', which means to take notes from the oral interview. And a quote is to take it word by word.
The first two big words were: Creativity and Analysis !
Paula mentioned a psychologist called Mihaly Csikszenrmihalyi. I just found a really interesting speech from him, where he is talking about his life and about the flow and creativity within artists! He points out a very nice poetry ("flow in poetry"), which says:
"It's like opening a door that's floating in the middle of nowhere and all you have to do is go and turn the handle and open it and let yourself sink into it. You can't particularly force yourself through it. You just have to float. If there's any gravitational pull, it's from the outside world trying to keep you back from the door."
And another one, where I can really associate with it, because it's the same when I dance:
"It was just one of those programs that clicked. I mean everything went right, everything felt good... it's just such a rush, like you feel it could go on and on and on, like you don't want it to stop because it's going so well. It's almost as though you don't have to think, it's like everything goes automatically without thinking... it's like you're on automatic pilot, so you don't have any thoughts. You hear the music but you're not aware that you're hearing it, because it's a part of it all."
If you are interested, have a listen:
https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=de#t-487121
Data
Literature Experience
https://www.google.at/search?q=analysis+triangle&rlz=1C1ZMDB_enGB504GB507&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdmZnC9InQAhXBPBQKHSEiDDAQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=triangle&imgrc=9ZQLpqIKs4HuuM%3A
All three of them are very important to create a good analysis review.
Data: people you talk to - in my case it's the interviews
Literature: articles or books you find - Paula said that we should find 10-20 sources - find some autor sourced articles - and that's literature expertise from other's and from a collected body of knowledge in your field and beyond
Experience: your own experience or in my case I can also use cultural experience, for example I can also use brochures to talk about the place and theatre
All in all I found the skype session very interesting and helpful.
And now I need to find some more literature ;)
