ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the useful steps to the students in the early stages of their research project. When students begin to create a piece of dance, there is usually a starting point, even if this is difficult to locate. For many, this could be: a question, music or sound, poetic words, a mathematical calculation, and a kind of movement. Popular Dance Culture-Looking at popular forms of dance, key dance figures and practices at any given time and their contexts within society. Research can be concerned with genre, technique, social and vernacular dance forms and their development and meaning within society and culture. Choreography-Looking at dance making in a range of contexts. Research can be concerned with a choreographer's role, skills and identity, process and performance. One of the early influences on dance studies was the discipline of anthropology, through which the significance of dance in culture was explored.
