I am still making slow progress with finding a company that will agree to me conducting fieldwork. I have received rejections from two ballet companies regarding fieldwork with them. I still have two more proposals outstanding with other companies but I am having trouble making contact with the persons who may be able to approve me spending four to six months with their company of dancers. So far I have only tried ballet companies in Australia and New Zealand. There are any number overseas that I could consider but they would need to be English speaking since the degree I am considering has no time available to learn another language. Do any of my readers have any thoughts on the matter? Is anyone willing to suggest this proposal to their company? If so, contact me and we will chat. Research overseas will cost a lot more in expenses, so if anyone is aware of any scholarships that may support such research I would be very interested.
UPDATE: Mike Barnes – Fieldwork Proposal document. This proposal mentions the first half of 2013, but it may have to slip to the second half at this late stage.
Mike, don’t give up. You may want to but it might be the next request that says “yes”. Read Jack canfield’s “success principles”. It’s a fantastic book and will help weather the storm.
Thank you for your encouragement Julie – it is appreciated. My biggest concern is that I really have little to say at the moment since I am not receiving any new information. That and the fact that I am not getting any younger and would like to progress this before it just becomes too hard.
Hey, neat blog! I might use your work here to familiarize my girlfriend with anthropology. She’s not huge on the social sciences, but she likes ballet. Lol. She’s been workin on her plie, lately.
BTW, I perused your proposal, and I think I spotted a problem. You don’t clearly “incentivise” your potential research subjects. Like, how will your presence and research BENEFIT them? Why SHOULD they inconvenience themselves, by letting an anthropologist poke around? These questions should get answered in the first paragraph. Just sayin.
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