From Cirque Global to Local Circus: the Québec Professional Circus Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Abstract
Given the success of its artistic and commercial models, the reach of Quebec’s circus has extended across continents to the point that it is now nearly impossible to imagine it being restricted to Quebec alone. However, COVID-19 took its toll on what had previously been an assertive and expansionist development. The pandemic brought circus artists home to reflect and reinvest in circus practice and involvement in Quebec, usually outside of institutional structures and without a contract. The Quebec circus’s global reach and aspirations were confronted with the brutal economic reality of a world without touring as circus refocused locally, and artists and institutions were forced to reconsider the existing model. This article draws on an extensive collection of data concerning all circus activity (virtual, hybrid and in situ) compiled during the two years COVID-19 most affected Quebec’s society. It offers a record and analysis of the impact the beginning of the pandemic had on the development of contemporary circus in Quebec and what new trends we might expect over the coming years as a result of this disruption.     En raison du succès de ses modèles artistiques et commerciaux, le cirque québécois a étendu sa portée à travers les continents, au point qu'il est aujourd'hui presque impossible de l'imaginer limité au Québec seul. Cependant, la COVID-19 a eu des répercussions sur ce qui avait été précédemment un développement assertif et expansionniste. La pandémie a ramené les artistes de cirque chez eux pour réfléchir et réinvestir dans la pratique circassienne et l'engagement au Québec, généralement en dehors des structures institutionnelles et sans contrat. La portée mondiale et les aspirations du cirque québécois ont été confrontées à la réalité économique brutale d'un monde sans tournée, alors que le cirque recentrait ses activités localement, obligeant artistes et institutions à reconsidérer le modèle existant. Cet article s'appuie sur une collecte de donnée méthodique concernant toutes les activités circassiennes (virtuelles, hybrides et in situ) compilées pendant les deux années où la COVID-19 a le plus affecté la société québécoise. Il offre un compte rendu et une analyse de l'impact du début de la pandémie sur le développement du cirque contemporain au Québec, ainsi que les nouvelles tendances que l'on pourrait anticiper au cours des prochaines années en raison de cette perturbation.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 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".