question list

[take photo]

Name:
Age:
Place of Birth:
What do you do?
Where do you live?
Why did you move to Brussels/What brings you to Brussels?
How long have you been here?
How long do you want to stay?
How much time a year do you spend in Brussels?
In which cities do you work mostly?
Does Brussels feel like home? Does anywhere feel like home?
Where do you feel at home? Why? How?
What were your expectations or ideals in moving here?
What changed in the meantime/What are your ideals now, in comparison?
Do you consider yourself a part of a community?
What community?
Do you consider yourself a part of the dance community, or a dance community?
Who else is in that community? (Naming not necessary yet)
What makes it a community?
What do you share/what brings you together?
Where is that community? Where do you convene? locations?
What are the meeting points of that community?
Who or what introduced you to the Brussels dance community?
How often are you in contact with brussels dance community?
When are you not?
Where did you spend your evenings in the last week?
What is your favorite bar?
Where do you go to be seen/Where do you feel the most visible?
Where to you feel the most invisible?
Where do you go to get away?
When, where, and how do you feel a sense of belonging?
When and where and how did you recently feel alone?
What is your top priority at the moment?
When did you feel your priorities were shifting?
What is the relationship between your survival needs and your artistic needs?
Make a list in your head or on paper, for yourself, of your closest friends in Brussels.
What are their professions?
Who are your most valuable professional connections in the dance field? (this concerns 'relators in the network, 3 is good)
Average duration of a love relationship?
Average duration of a professional relationship?
STABILITY/PLANS
Do you know what you will do in the next:
--month?
--six months?
--year?
--two years?
--five years?
What would you like to be doing in the next ten years?
Is that something you are working towards now?
What is your main source of income?
How many hours do you work a week?
Do you have a sense of freedom in your profession? Artistic freedom?
What do you do for free (even if you should be payed for it?)
What do you consider free time and what do you do with it?
What kind of credit/recognition do you value the most?
When have you felt under-recognized or under-credited for your work?
Do you feel your work is recognised by the Brussels dance community?
What actions do you do that keep you in the Brussels dance community?
What actions pull you out of the dance community?
Is networking an active part of your professional or personal life? How?
What is the longest period you have stayed in an appartment since your first job?
How many people live in your appartment now?
What was your most expensive purchase in the last year?
What would you like that you can't afford?
What languages do you speak? Which would you rather improve, French or Flemmish? Why?
Who has been most frequently mentioned in your conversations if the last month?
If you had to make a performance based on a bunch of interviews with people in the dance community about the dance community what would you do?
Please order these items from most important to least important according to your current priority. (On cards)
--ARTISTIC CONCERNS
--HOME
--MONEY
--PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
--PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
--RECOGNITION
--RECREATION/LEISURE/HOLIDAY
--WORK

ILLUSTRATION:
Please draw or map the community or communities you perceive to be a part of your life.
Place/mark yourself in the picture.
Refer me please to three other interviewees.