Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2001, Tom Stroud celebrated his tenth anniversary as artistic director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers. In that period he has created a number of performances in which dance and theatre intertwine in the use of verbal text as inspiration for dance movement. As a choreographer, Stroud is often dissatisfied with “pure dance,” in which movement has no context or connection to ideas. For him, text makes movement specific and adds a psychological dimension to dance, while dance embodies ideas and allows access to the emotional heart of the textual material. His approach to text and theatre is not so much narrative as “poetic”: his dance presents a series of images around a set of themes that arise in the chosen text. In this way, dance “makes a statement,” but this statement is in the oracular form of images that allow for audience members to make their own contemplative connections. Stroud invokes Pina Bausch as one of his precursors who have united theatre and dance. In a Canadian context it is easy to be reminded of Montreal’s Carbone 14.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.003 |
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".