Start of a New Topic

I have looked into several different areas for my inquiry: 

• how to be more employable as a dancer
• Is there enough education in how to be self-employed? 
• The public perception of a dancer 
• The opportunities in different cultures to have a career in dance. 

Although I have a keen interest to research further into these areas, I know a few people already researching into this and I wanted to try and incorporate my experience of touring into my inquiry. 

For most of my professional career I have toured with shows, rather than staying at one theatre. Touring with a show can provide more difficulties than staying in one place, particularly for us dancers. I would like to look into whether touring a show has the same expectations compared with a show that is ‘in-house’, exploring from both points of view of ‘on stage and ‘off-stage’.

I started to write down some ideas on the different factors that could affect the show on and off stage:

On-Stage

Off-Stage 

From writing down a few of my thoughts, these are particular areas I would like to look into for this subject:

• Social norms and how they affect peoples behaviour compared to western countries and how that affects the arts. 
• Touring a show even in a UK tour, gruelling schedule can it affect performance? Look at reviews 
• Health and safety: Is it still the same in other countries (depending where you go?)
• The budget of a show and how much money it needs to make in order to be a success. 

These are a few of my thoughts so far, after reviewing Reader 4: Developing Lines of Professional Inquiry hopefully I will have a better insight to my topic area.