Suite canadienne (2015): Re-Performance & Otherwise Movements
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines a work of video documentation made by the author called Suite canadienne (2015). The video documents a series of re-performances of a ballet titled Suite canadienne made in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, the founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal and the first major, government-supported choreographer in Québec. Part 1 of the thesis situates the original 1957 work in the political, cultural and social context from which it emerged. It shows how the original work positioned itself as an originary work of Québec dance and manifested a “hailing” of the subject, following Louis Althusser’s theory of interpellation. The author theorizes this hailing as a mobilization of subjective arrest that posits sovereignty as arrestation-in-movement. Part 2 discusses the technique of re-performance in relation to the political, historical and nomological power of the archive. In this way, the author argues for the uses of re-performance as so many strategies for refusing the proliferation of normative culture within and through the dancing body. The thesis examines the 2015 re-performances through three of their aspects: (1) the undisciplining of the ballet body, (2) the reterritorialization of administrative architectures and (3) the performance of experimental subjectivities. The final section, the “coda,” relates all of these aspects to the notion of “otherwise movements” that perform the normative while simultaneously recasting it, allowing for real deterritorializations and lines of flight.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 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".