Choreographing a piece isn't that much different from other types of scholarship, says Tammy Dyke-Compton, an assistant professor in the School of Dance. For her, movements are like words, which build into the sentences and paragraphs that make up a performance. When she's conducting research, she says, one of her questions might be, "What kind of dialogue or vocabulary are they speaking with their bodies?" This is the second story in an LQP series that explores the unique scholarship of fine arts.