“Festivalizing” Performance: Community and Aesthetics through the Lens of Three Festival Experiences
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although the history of Canadian theatre has been greatly shaped by the existence of the long-established Stratford and Shaw Festivals, a new creative energy is coming from a crop of alternatives to them. These newer festivals are an increasingly important part of the Canadian performance landscape, in part precipitated by a renaissance in performance-creation work by independent artists and performance collectives who eschew the “season and theatre building” model of performance. Instead, these creators favour fluid creation methodologies and presentation arrangements that are well suited to the fluidity of a new festival model of presentation. Over the past decade, a whole network of festivals has been set up across the country to embrace such work, anchored by now venerable festivals such as One Yellow Rabbit’s twenty-three-year-old High Performance Rodeo. Some of these festivals are high profile; Vancouver’s PuSh Festival and the National Arts Centre’s Magnetic North Festival have provided important national stages for new work. Others, like Calgary’s Mutton Busting Festival and Toronto’s RED Festival, happen on a smaller scale and in local settings. Although these smaller festivals tend to be more temporary in nature (both the festivals just mentioned are now defunct), they provide necessary opportunities for new and adventurous work to be developed and seen.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".