A complete U - Turn

After having the panic about starting my final inquiry and revisiting the subject after the summer break, I had really fallen out of love with it.
I felt that my inquiry question 'What does performance mean to you' was far too broad. I could explore an array of people and still not come to a conclusion. I felt as if my inquiry was all based on opinion, even reading literature would be someones opinion. This made me feel very uneasy as I had no idea how I was then going to analyse all the opinions I had gathered. I feel it would be too personal to compare one against the other, as i wouldn't have the time to completely explore peoples backgrounds and find out why they had the opinion the did and why it differed from another person.

If I hadn't made it as a performer I would have been a historian. For some this can seem worlds apart but the dance we have today all stems from somewhere. I think this is why I did not want to base my inquiry on just opinion and why I need to be able to add a factual basis which I can research. I would enjoy researching into the history of my subject.

I also think that I have had a change of heart on the inquiry topic I would like to do because I have changed what I would like to do in the future. I wanted to be a senior school teacher so I had a clear path of how I needed to get there. Over the summer I organised a dance festival. It was a 3 day competition I had 600 entries from local performers aged4-18. They competed in different genres of dance and the whole event was a great success. I am organising a 5 day one for next year in the hope I can expand each year. This is now the path I would like to take in my career. I would like to organise events & competitions for dancers. I would like to be a part of showcasing what they can do rather than teaching it to them in the first place. Although I realise my inquiry doesn't have to affect what I do in the future but I need to be able to relate it to my professional practice now, because that has now developed so too must my inquiry and I need to narrow down my question.

I am now going to as Why do people perform?
Again this can seem quite broad but I am going to narrow it down into some sub categories of
What historical influences have lead to the way we perform today exploring Indian dance.
What has lead to performers feeling they need to compete their talents against each other for them to hold any worth.

Why and how do people use performing as a form of expressing themselves. 

I am then going to focus those questions further into exploring them looking at the history of Indian dancing and the history of dance in the UK.
One of my contracts was to dance in Indian in Bollywood films & Music videos. It has become so westernised. Even when I was out there I never looked into the reason why and how it has evolved so this is of interest to me and I can use my previous experience.
I will look at the two different countries but not necessarily compare them. I would just give me moer information to look at and explore.

I am now motivated and ready to start my inquiry. I have a lot to catch up but am glad I have now finally pulled my head out the sand!