Collaborative practices in dance research: unpacking the process

This essay explores the numerous and diverse ways collaborative practices in dance research can unfold. Strengths and challenges within the collaborative process are discussed as emphasis is given to the multiple perspectives and types of relationships that evolve from and within the process. These core elements offer scholars a rich array of choices that can enhance research endeavors as well as inform pedagogical practices. Unpacking collaboration in this manner carries particular relevance in a world that is as global as it is fragmented, underscoring the need to understand collaboration not as a specific research methodology but as a dynamic process. Examples in dance science, choreography, dance education, and pedagogy are considered to illustrate the possibilities collaboration holds for future research queries.