Review Of "Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity, And Festival In The United States And Canada" By A. Shay
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With this book Shay extends his two previous works on folk dance, Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World (1999) and Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation, and Power (CH, Jan'03, 40-2710). Drawing on some 40 years of experience as performer, choreographer, and producer of folk ensembles in the US, the author reviews key North American folk-dance festivals and examines various immigrant dances and the evolving nature of their presentation. He investigates how "traditional" dances change given varying contexts, and he explores ways that cultural representations manifest through folk dancing are both established and manipulated. Discussion focuses on immigrant dances from Arab, Croatian, Greek, Filipino, Iranian, and Mexican American groups from 1960 to the present. The text opens with two perceptive chapters on immigrant dance and choreographic strategies of representation. This book is for those interested in dance ethnography and in how folk ensembles can develop "best practices." Supplementary notes and an inclusive bibliography enhance the book's utility for dance professionals. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
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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 | 0.018 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".