Dance Research Methodology

Read the dance research reflexivity and data interpretation methods as a practitioner. Biases and an ethnographic lens in a Ph.D. study.

Explanation of the Ph.D. research judgment criteria and positivist perspective of validity, coherence, and verisimilitude for dance heritage.

Qualitative dance data study analysis, reliability, coherence, validity and interpretivist research. Dance videos and deviant case analysis.

Writing a dance research data model, analysis & timeframes, clustered on key themes. The traditional narrative for intangible heritage.

Introducing the dance research coding, themes, and thematic analysis. Emic vs Etic codes, transmission, Zotero, and qualitative research.

Dance heritage Ph.D. research texts and interviews analysis transcription process. Naturalism, denaturalism, clarity, and accuracy.

Learn how to analyse dance and the semiotic levels. Using Laban movement analysis (LMA), kinemes, video and belly dance heritage.

Introduction to the data analysis and analytical methods used in this PhD research. Bricoleurthematic analysis research for dance heritage.

Ph.D. research ethics, committee, interviews, and considerations in this dance heritage research. Skype interviews, guidelines, and strategies.

Choosing semi-structured interviews for intangible dance heritage PhD research. Sampling, gatekeepers, rapport, and Skype methods.

Intangible heritage and documents for dance research. Sampling, practitioners, emerging themes and virtual snowball sampling method.

Rationale for using online video analysis for PhD research on living cultural heritage. Advantages, limitations, videos sampling, and YouTube.

The data collection stages for video and textual content for intangible dance heritage PhD research. Transcultural & traditional ethnography.

Data collection and data sources for dance heritage research. Videos, texts, visual data, and interviews for qualitative studies.

The methodological framework and dance heritage methodology used. Sensitizing concepts, frameworks, and a relativist ontology and paradigm.