28 Aug Research paper outlineThesis Statement:Britney Spears in the

Research paper outlineThesis Statement:Britney Spears in the 2000 vma awards performance seduces the audience,and also makes the audience feel like they are capable of seduction.Essay: Prove by saying how she seduces the audience:-First things first what are you seeing in the performance, starting from the king of popMichel Jackson and her turning into this seducing female.-Her movement, Glanses, back up dancers, her being the ultimate “sex” object, “sex”goddess. BE RAW.-Be creative and say “watching this when I was 13 year young, I knew that one day I am going togrow up and dye my hair blonde like Britney”. I saw a glimpse of what empowered femalesexuality looks like. Go back to the thesis and say what the performance does. She is beingseductive, and she gives off a fantasy femininity. The fantasy looks like a barbie, blonde, thin,surrounded by attractive men, in a world with no other women. How she is now the “king ofpop” from Michael Jackson to her. Then say what this is communicating, it’s the year 2000, andshe’s a woman, and she’s taking the throne of pop. You can say stuff like, “This performance wasmy moment that I created my own fantasy in my head”. MAKE SURE to include all fourreadings as references, and link them to the performance.britney spears 2000 vma performance➔ Introduction◆ Opening sentence, including thesis:● Why out of all performances I chose Britney Spears 2000 mtvperformance.● Britney spears: Which of Britney’s dances I find most interesting and whyI chose her 2000 MTV performance.●● What is interesting and how I connect to it, and what my argument isabout the performance. How it links and ties up with Bench’s “ScreenSharing”, Conquergood’s “Performance Studies”, Foster’s“Choreographing History”, and Mattingly’s “Digital Dance Criticism”.➔ Methods○ QuestionstoMAYBEthinkabout◆ “What a movement analysis of the 2000 MTV performance reveals◆ What do they represent?◆ How do they represent these things?◆ How do you interact with these dances?◆ Do you dance along?◆ Do you fantasize about what it would be like to be Britney for a day?◆ what is happening choreographically within Britney Spears’s performance back in2000 for the MTV VMA awards, under her hit “oops I did it again” and manymore.◆ How does Britney move, and how we connect her movements to her lyrics.◆ Where are those movements from?◆ Who choreographs them?◆ Do they illustrate the lyrics or say something different? ◆ Reflexive comments on intro, methods, and discussion. An email the professor sent out.1. Your research paper should center a close analysis of a performance, broadly defined. A majorintervention and methodology in dance studies is “choreographic analysis” or a close reading of bodiesand movements. In other words, by doing a close readings of the bodies and movements—beyond thename for the movement or pose—dance studies scholars are able to unearth knowledge that other fieldsoften overlook. In your paper, I would like to challenge you to center a close analysis of bodies andmovements.2. Building on the first point, because I want you to pay close attention to bodies and movements, yourresearch question might be something like: what does a movement analysis (along with a close reading ofthe location, etc.) reveal about this performance?3. A research question is just the thesis posed in a question form. If your question is ‘what does amovement analysis reveal,’ your thesis will be ‘a movement analysis reveals’ . . . . Based on the questionposed in the second point, your thesis will answer what a movement analysis and close reading of otherelements of the performance illuminate. I want you to challenge yourselves by writing a dance studiespaper in that you are centering a critical movement analysis, which is typically not done in any other field.4. In terms of structuring your paper, since you are centering a movement analysis, the bulk of your paper(I would estimate about 12 pages) will be movement analysis along with close readings of other relevantelements of the performance. The rest of the paper will be composed of introduction (1.5 to 2 pages withmethods and positionality) and conclusion (1 page). The conclusion can discuss the broader implicationsof your research and/or point to future directions for research about the performance or topic you arediscussing.5. If you were writing a paper in an English class, you would likely also be doing a close reading.However, the difference in dance studies is that you have to create your own written text based on theperformance. In other words, first you translate the movements in to words and then you analyze them.There is no one way to go about writing a dance studies research paper, but because you will need totranslate movement into words, doing a choreographic analysis of the piece might be a good place to start.Then ask yourself, your research question: what does a movement analysis about this performance reveal?Again, the answer to that question is your thesis.6. It is not enough to simply insert your movement analysis into the body of the paper. The topic sentenceand concluding sentence of each paragraph must tie back to the thesis. Also, you can further elaborate ondescriptions of movements in the paragraphs, which help to illustrate your thesis.7. Your positionality statement should ideally tell the reader who you are (race, gender, class, sexuality,religion, nationhood, ability, etc.) and how that is relevant to the paper. This would be a great place tobriefly cite one of our many readings that articulates how research is always subjective. Also, you maywant to identify experiences that are relevant to why you selected this topic and that have well preparedyou to write about this topic (such as dance training, how many years, etc.) A positionality statement doesnot need to be long or even an entire sentence. For example, take a look at the Brenda Dixon Gottschildreading we did for Week 7 in which she identifies as an African American woman and then moves on. BE CREATIVE AND HAVE FUN!!!