Bibliographic record
Abstract
There are striking similarities in the work of Canadian theatre artists Richard Pochinko, Theatre Columbus, and Theatre Smith-Gilmour. Each of these artists emphasizes the physical aspects of theatre, each uses physical performance styles to explore nature and the human condition, and each prioritizes connection with the audience. While these similarities are apparent from even the most cursory of examinations, this article explores further the actual link between them: Jacques Lecoq and his École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, which served as inspiration for all these Canadian theatre icons. A mime and physical theatre artist himself, Lecoq taught his students to experiment with physical expression, and this physical experimentation influenced the approaches, techniques, and perspectives adopted in the work of the theatre artists listed above. Indeed, Lecoq has made a valuable impact on many of the influential practitioners who have shaped what we recognize as Canadian theatre today. This article explores the nature of that impact by outlining Lecoq’s own artistic interests and influences, the approaches taught at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, and the ways that Lecoq’s influence presents itself in three iconic examples of physical theatre in Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".