Hypothesis:
There is a contradiction between a healthy diet for a dancer and the diet some dancers have in order to be considered thin enough to get work.
Aim:
To investigate whether dancers felt pressure from teachers at their dance school to be thin when they were in training.
Objectives:
To find out whether dancers know what constitutes a healthy diet
To find out if all dancers have felt pressure to be thin at some point
To find out whether they found this pressure at dance school
Eleanor - a bit of a concern that you have found that 'answer' before the inquiry - the pseudo question - diet is an important issue to dancers and it is a valid one to investigate - but how does it affect your practice? If there is a problem - what is your purpose for investigating it?- can you think this to what others have said about the issue - have you started on the literature yet- how does this relate to your own practice -an example might be http://sophiejgilbert.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-topic.html ALSO if you have gotten your Athens password
ReplyDeleteThe Journal of Dance Medicine & Science is under the Dance http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/content.php?pid=67146&sid=495986