After answering the following, I feel much better prepared to carry out my artefact.
How
and why will this be effective with your professional audience in mind?
It will be effective because I am trying out
different diets, two which are widely deemed unhealthy particularly for dancers.
However, as both the literature I reviewed and the inquiry I carried out shows
that dancers do not always give their nutrition the attention it needs. I am
also guilty of this and so it is something I am really keen to look at further.
Will
your film incorporate any other information – it sounds like a type of
documentary – like a postscript about what it meant to you.
The video will be a documentary and will have
an introduction where I explain what I did and why I did it. Then, each day
that I am doing one of the diets I will film regularly and talk about what I
have eaten and why. Before I head to the dance class I shall film to explain
how I am feeling and then when I get back I shall do the same.
How
will you be displaying this –your YouTube channel – who will access it?
I will be displaying this on my YouTube
channel and I shall make it public with a title that incorporates dance and
nutrition so that if any dancers should be searching online for nutrition they will
be able to find my video.
Have
you checked it is ok in terms of copyright – is this Challis menu one that is
sold (patented) or can anyone try it out (is it from Dance UK?)
Yes, this information is on DanceUK and is
therefore intended to be tried out by anyone and I will give her full credit
for the recipe on the video. I will only be taking my evening meal from her
because I am not doing an intense rehearsal/performance schedule. Breakfast and
lunch will be healthy options too but I will using my own knowledge to decide
what I am eating for those.
Where
is the less healthy diet coming from?
As Challis reports, carbohydrates are the key
to having energy as a dancer. I will miss that food group out as much as
possible and eat lots of fats which will take longer to digest and sugary foods
which will give me energy at first but will drop and give me low blood sugar
level. The idea for this came about because I wanted to see if I would feel a
huge difference with regard to my energy levels and ability to perform just
from the foods I eat.
Why
eat nothing? Is that something in the literature or from you experience?
Eating nothing (or next to nothing) is
obviously extremely unhealthy but from results from my inquiry and from
experience working with other dancers I know that some dancers take dieting to
extremes and this is what I want to look at by eating nothing.
Do you have precedents for your trying out these different eating regimes? Where did you get the idea for your intervention and how does it link to your inquiry?
Do you have precedents for your trying out these different eating regimes? Where did you get the idea for your intervention and how does it link to your inquiry?
I hope to get some insight into how food will
affect my performance in a dance class. When I was researching ‘nutrition for dancers’,
authors kept saying how important food is as a fuel. I am not suggesting that
dancers take what I find out as fact because everybody is different and as much
as I will try to keep the experiment fair I know it has limitations. I got the
idea for this from Challis’ article and other literature on nutrition but also
from my findings in my inquiry because many participants said that they did not
find lessons they had on nutrition helpful and some dancers stated that they do
not normally eat healthily, which could mean they try to diet to extremes or
they make unhealthy food choices. I wanted to do this experiment to see how
this could be affecting their performance.
