Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:38:12 -0400
From: john bell <john_bell-AT-emerson.edu>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Puppet Criticism Again: A Call for Ideas!


I'm very happy to hear that Robert Smythe has found the works of LeCoq, 
Decroux, Feynman, Bass, and LaPortier to be quite useful to his 
work.  That's great!  It seems to me that theory is valuable to the extent 
that it becomes useful to our understanding of what we are doing, and also 
that each of us will value different ideas in different ways (for me 
Kleist, Craig, Proschan, and Schumann have been enlightening).  But I would 
like to add that developing theory and criticism is not some rarefied 
practice, because we all have our own de facto theories and critical 
perspectives which we use all the time.  Maybe we all should write such 
things down and make our own contributions to the ongoing dialogue of the 
past few centuries.

john bell

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