I enjoyed the recent contributions about dance and drawing, and although, like Tom, I expect students to do their own research before approaching busy professionals for information or advice, I think the open-ended nature of the original question was helpful in eliciting the rich variety of responses. So I hope the recent discussion won't put off students or anyone else from raising broad questions as well as more focussed enquiries.
Incidentally, Mallarme's writing on dance and the dancer Loie Fuller may be helpful for the original enquirer. I don’t have the reference to hand but I think the essay is in the collected prose writings, and was influential in the 1920s and 30s in ideas around space and gesture that fed into the development of abstract expressionism. While looking for an electronic version, I also came across this article by Francesca Wilde http://www.academia.edu/234418/Dancing_Yes_some_thoughts_on_the_phenomenology_of_dance_in_response_to_Badious_Dance_as_a_Metaphor_for_Thought which has some interesting resonances with drawing as research.
best wishes
Pauline
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:38:24 +0000
From: Clare Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The DRN JISCMail.
Great to see this endorsement of the forum as one of open access generating interest at a number of levels.
Clare
On 15 Jan 2013, at 08:34, Russell Marshall wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thank you for the open and honest discussion strand that has been
> circulating recently. It has and is prompting various positions with
> regard to the use of the DRN JISCMail forum. Whilst in no way wishing
> to curtail the debate TRACEY in its capacity as host and director of
> the DRN would like to offer the following:
>
> The DRN is an open access forum for questions to be asked and
> information to be exchanged.
> The forum generates interest at a number of levels, including
> students, educators, artists and other creative practitioners.
> The quality of the question often determines the specificity and
> helpfulness of the answer on this kind of forum.
> Some contributors may choose to reply to general questions whilst
> others will exercise their right to refrain from entering a debate.
> Contributors who require detailed answers to specific questions that
> are of public interest should carefully consider structuring their
> question to consider factors like academic rigour, context,
> methodology and possible dissemination route to ascertain esteem and
> impact of the research being proposed or conducted.
>
> Sincerely
> TRACEY
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