Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cirque du Soleil originated in 1982, in Baie St. Paul, Quebec. The New Circus genre does not use animals in its performances, nor does it present death-defying acts, instead, it presents theme-based circuses. As an example of the New Circus form Cirque du Soleil presents heavily stylized performances, which contain complex ideas and images. This thesis has three major goals: (1) to interpret the signs and symbols found in a Cirque du Soleil performance; (2) to explain how balance, energy, equivalence, and other aspects of ‘theatre anthropology’ aid in the understanding of the morphological elements (lighting, costumes, sound, etc.) found in a Cirque du Soleil production; and (3) to examine how the various performers within Cirque du Soleil have (or have not) evolved out of traditional circus archetypes such as the clown, ringmaster, and acrobat. A basic semiotic model is employed in the interpretation of the signs and symbols located within a Cirque du Soleil production. This semiotic paradigm begins with the assumption that the circus performance has a message to convey. Logically it follows that it is the responsibility of the circus artist to communicate meaning to the spectator whose task it is to decode or interpret the performance. Theories on the use of the body developed by Eugenio Barba and Nicola Sarvarese in A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology are utilized to assist with the reading of signs in the circus ring. As well, through an analysis of the symbols within the Cirque du Soleil ring, circus acrobats, clowns, and ringmasters that have evolved from archetypes found in the traditional circus can be identified. This thesis is also an historical text, which documents details of a number of Cirque du Soleil performances and acts.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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".