Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation engages with Disabled scholars and artists to begin understanding what Disability dramaturgy has been globally (Victoria Ann Lewis, Kate O’Reilly) and what it can be in a Canadian context. I begin by unpacking the different ways Disability dramaturgy has come to be, with examples of my personal practice as a Blind Dramaturg. The negotiations between traditions of theatre practice and creative approaches to Disability art that operate in good relation to Disabled people are the heartbeat of this project. I unpack these ideas by discussing three Disabled artist teams, Blind artist Alex Bulmer, the Boys in Chairs Collective, and Black Mad Trans artist Syrus Marcus Ware. I go on to discuss creation methods for both care and support in the performance space, in addition to how their Disability informs the aesthetics of their work. These artists demonstrate, but are not limited to, emerging practices happening in Canada. Disabled artists aim to dismantle systemic oppression and ableism in intersectional and care-full ways, and demonstrate and animate futures that promote Disability pride with an activist tone. This dissertation also prioritizes Disabled artists, scholars, and activists as the core theoretical frameworks for understanding Disability relationships. It fits into an interdisciplinary field that touches critical Disability studies, theatre and performance studies, feminist and Black feminist studies, care studies, and practice-based research. This new and emerging understanding of Disability dramaturgy is two-pronged: 1) Disability dramaturgy can be used as a lens to analyze a play for Disability and access features and the composition of those features; 2) Disability dramaturgy is a practise that can be a person stewarding the Disability-centered and care-full practices that develop Disability aesthetic, community, and culture. Disability dramaturgy focuses on care for both performers and the audience, as well as the entire production team.Among finding the strength, softness, and care from this project to move ahead in both the Disability arts community and academia, I look ahead to my future research on the ways that Disabled artists gather together. Interdependence and care co-mingle in the development of Disability arts community and culture, and the ways that we, Disabled artists, can support one another while doing this work. How can we find ways to support, challenge, and rest together while creating radical, exciting, beautiful art?
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 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".