Conceiving Connections: Increasing industry viability through analysis of audience responses to dance performance.

构思连接：通过分析观众对舞蹈表演的反应来提高行业的可行性。澳大利亚舞蹈界认为，观众的发展对该行业的未来至关重要。目前的项目将调查观众如何回应高度发展的舞蹈作品。它将探讨这些作品所传达的各种意义，以及受过教育和未经教育的观众赋予它们的价值。将通过在大都市和区域中心进行研究，检验加强受众参与的方法。舞蹈学者，艺术家和认知心理学家与三个行业合作伙伴合作，以确定和解决艺术家，主持人，倡导者和资助机构的重大问题，并以跨学科模式培养研究生研究人员。

Conceiving Connections: Increasing industry viability through analysis of audience responses to dance performance. The development of audiences is identified by the Australian dance industry as vital to the future of the sector. The current project will investigate how audiences respond to highly evolved dance-works. It will explore the kinds of meaning communicated by such works, and the value assigned to them by tutored and untutored audiences. Methods for enhancing audience engagement will be tested through studies in both metropolitan and regional centres. Dance-scholars, artists and cognitive psychologists collaborate with three industry partners to identify and address significant concerns for artists, presenters, advocates and funding bodies, and to train postgraduate reserachers in inter-disciplinary modes.