Elasticity, community & hope: understandings from participatory theatre performance
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Abstract
This performative inquiry begins with a research project I conducted in the summer of 2004, a six week “participatory \ntheatre laboratory’ with eight undergraduate students in the Theatre Program of the Department of Theatre, Film & Creative \nWriting, at the University of British Columbia. Integral to the laboratory were six participatory theatre performances with day \ncamps in the Greater Vancouver area. Seven youth leader participants from three of these performances and two student \nactors were interviewed six to eight weeks later to discover what they remembered of their experience with ParticipAction \nTheatre. Their responses cover a wide range of interests, focusing predominantly on the value of involvement. \nMy conceptual explorations encompass the late twentieth century movement towards audience involvement in theatre \nperformance, theatre for education and social change, performance studies, and the relation of the artist, as mystic, to the \ncommunity. Community is a contested term: I borrow from the Amerindian1 understanding of community to ground my own \ninterpretation. I perform this inquiry as an ongoing journey of discovery, using stories from the Tricksters’ Theatre tours, my \ninitial work in participatory performance, to propel the journey between stopping places of reflection. \nElasticity, community, and hope, are three concepts that have risen through my exploration of the experience of participatory \ntheatre. Elasticity bespeaks the dynamic of inter-relationships between people when they perform together. I identify what \nparticipants have reported as a ‘feeling of community’ when performing together to be an “excess” of performance” \n(Kershaw, 1 999, p. 64). This dissertation explores how participatory theatre performance can generate these “excesses” \nand theorizes an elastic connection between performing together and feeling a sense of community. The value of feeling \ncommunity is that it may reveal an emergent culture of hope in situations where people perform together. \n1 I choose to use the designation “Amerindian” following Olive P. Dickason’s rational that it is more specific than “Native” \n“Indian”, or “Aboriginal” (Dickason, 2002, p. xiv-xv).
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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
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".