Be Open and Improvise!: Drawing Parallels Between Qualitative Research Methodologies and Practice as a Rhythmician

This article examines possible connecting points between qualitative research and eurhythmics seen as a pedagogical approach, as an art form and as a teaching philosophy. Therefore, it includes the strategies of inquiry such as Ethnography, Grounded Theory Methodology, and Performative Social Sciences. It is shown that the ethnographic research values techniques like improvisation within the process of collecting and interpreting data. Both ethnography and Reflexive Grounded Theory Methodology postulate the importance of a general openness in the research process to be able to change its focus if the subject of your inquiry demands it. Here, a reflexive approach is also suggested within the process of inquiry. In Performative Social Science artistic methods are applied to create and interpret data, and to present the findings of a research project.