What defines your identity, as a person and as a professional?
What are your core principles and values, as a person and as a professional?
Why
Why do you want to create work? What is your necessity or urgency to create work?
Why through dance?
What do you want to be responsible for as an artist?
What is your mission?
Why is your work relevant? Does your work relate to the world around you? To dance, society, contemporaries, history, politics?
How
How do you refer to yourself and your practice in daily conversation?
How does your background (personal, artistic, educational or other) affect or inform your practice / the work?
How does the place(s) your art is being created resonate in the work or your approach to the work?
How do you define artistic research within your practice?
How do you approach a question?
How do you approach your collaborators?
How do you translate your essence in work/image/footage?
How do you invite people into your work/process? Is this something you feel a responsibility to do?
What
What is your desired outcome?
What do you consider to be at the heart of your process?
What kind of methods do you use?
What is the craftsmanship behind the work?
What does the work look like?
What makes your work specific?
What is the atmosphere you will be trying to create through the work?
What is your desired impact?
What kind of dance are you presenting? Does it refer to a certain style or code or do you create your own code? If so, how?
What kind of themes are you/have you been working on (over the years)?
What is your personal connection to the work? Can you explain this in everyday language?
What elements are recurrent in your artistic language?
With whom
How do you define collaboration?
When considering collaboration, what is the difference between co-ownership and co-authorship?
Who are your performers?
How does the essence of your work define which/what kind of performers you need to work with?
What kind of bodies does the audience see on stage?
Can co-ownership exist around your work? Is that different from co-ownership around a project?
For whom
Who is your audience? For whom do you create?
What kind of venues/sights/sizes?
What kind of relationship do you want to create with your audience? How does the work resonate with your audience? Visual, tangible, intellectual?
Do you see gaining audiences as part of your job?
Do you believe in co-ownership by an audience? How would you define this?
Language
What words do you choose to describe what you do?
How do you present yourselves to colleagues/funding bodies/audiences?
What words are given to you and your work by outsiders/experts?
Communication
What is your preferred method of communication? Physical, written, verbal or visual?
Are there any key moments of realisation or learning when you look back at how you have been communicating about your work so far?
Can you think of moments in which communication was successful? How did you know it was successful? And how did it affect the communication about your next project?
When did you fail to communicate? What was causing the miscommunication?