Bibliographic record
Abstract
This review deals with the four journals having a focus only on theatre and the performing arts in Québec: Jeu.Revue de théâtre, Annuaire théâtral.Revue québécoise d'études théâtrales, Alt.theatre.Cultural Diversity and the Stage, Aparté.Arts vivants-recherche et création.1 Each of the journals has its range of critical approaches, practical and theoretical interests, unique readership.Together they provide specific information, as well as an overview, on what has been going on recently in theatre, performance, and the many other living arts in Quebec.I am hoping that this review will be an instrument for listening to probing critical perspectives, dynamic creative initiatives, commentaries, and critiques on the challenges faced by theatre in contemporary society.I offer an idea of some of the exciting new theatrical work in Quebec, innovative theoretical approaches, and the most urgent current issues, spilling vigorously onto public spaces, that are currently preoccupying members of performing arts communities and their critics.Quite fierce initiatives to tear down the walls that protect and preserve the canon, autonomous, institutionalized artistic disciplines, and the media that preserve their centrality in public spaces are in the air on the Québec theatre scene.In this climate, interdisciplinarity is facilitating unconstrained creativity, co-creation, indiscipline, dialogue, improvisation, play, collaborative experimentation, disruption of established conventions, codes, and traditions.Spectators are interpellated to be active participants in innovative adventures.Such interdisciplinarity and artistic recontextualization are serving to crack open established bases of theatre practice, examine theatricality in perspectives not previously studied analytically or in practice, and throw into question lingering practices and values that lend themselves to arbitrary closure in languages and forms and that continue to privilege inequitable traditions.Wide-ranging interdisciplinarity may include collaboration among any number of existing or newly invented arts, such as theatre, dance, music, visual art, poetry, circus, puppetry, performance art, cinema, and animation.However, despite this openness, Quebec's theatre journals show that all is not sweetness and light on the theatre and performing arts scene in the province.In addition to shifting public support and conflicting tastes regarding what theatre should be about in an era when social media have radically transformed conversations, tastes, and activities on the cultural commons, voices are urgently making themselves heard calling for action toward achieving equity and diversity.There are many whose stories and experiences have never been appropriately represented in the theatres and performance spaces of Quebec.Where do theatre and the performing arts fit in twenty-first century Quebec society, with its mosaic of cultures and new technologies?Who has the legitimacy to be heard in public, to perform on today's stages?To tell whose stories?To represent whose history, experiences, and aspirations?In whose words?In the name of what communities?What is the impact of enhanced spectators' agency?What is pedagogically appropriate for today's theatre students?What is the
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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 | 0.012 | 0.061 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.014 | 0.017 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.038 | 0.010 |
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".