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"vr.tr.mass-games", "name": "mass games", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise mass games, record how a production coordinates large performer groups, assess its readiness and participation conditions, and identify justified changes.", "definition": "Mass games are large-scale, coordinated public displays in which many participants perform synchronized gymnastics, dance, formations or card stunts, typically emphasizing collective spectacle rather than individual competition.", "scope_statement": "This model owns vr.tr.mass-games as a collective performance practice and its staged instances: large groups execute coordinated gymnastics or related movement to produce an ensemble display, consistent with the working definition in [Mass games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_games); the registry's intended historical and geographical coverage remains unconfirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of mass-games productions, editions and individual performances", "Collective movement, 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"Participants execute an organised performance sequence; a large audience, rally or spontaneous gathering alone does not establish an instance.", "Assess whether the segment primarily presents a collective spectacle or determines winners through competitive scoring; classify mixed events at segment level.", "Look for coordinated gymnastic or related bodily display when distinguishing mass games from a marching procession or an isolated audience card stunt.", "Treat political sponsorship, card mosaics and a particular country's terminology as contextual evidence rather than mandatory identifying conditions." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Instance level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "practice tradition | production | edition | performance | segment", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence about one performance from becoming a claim about every production or the whole practice." }, { "name": "Performer scale", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "people, separated into 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tolerances." }, { "name": "Rehearsal exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "hours per participant or cohort over a stated period, with breaks and session conditions", "why_it_matters": "Connects readiness assessments to the effort and physical burden required." }, { "name": "Participation conditions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented recruitment method, ability to decline or withdraw, consequences, and unresolved or disputed evidence", "why_it_matters": "Allows assessment of participant agency without assuming either voluntariness or coercion." }, { "name": "Commissioning relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "production linked to commissioning, organising, funding and directing bodies", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who sets the message and who can authorise operational changes." }, { "name": "Performance readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | rehearsing | conditionally ready | ready | paused | cancelled | completed, 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"Help organize performances that force children or adults to participate.", "Identify individual participants in images without their consent.", "Promote the spectacle while hiding documented abuses." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing images where individual participants can be identified." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Mass games can involve long, compulsory training of children and young people.", "They are used as political propaganda, which affects how they should be described." ], "affected_parties": [ "Participants, often children", "Their families", "Audiences" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The organizing state or institution.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "Thousands of performers move in synchrony on a stadium field.", "Spectator stands show giant changing pictures made by people holding coloured cards." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Long training in heat and repetition can injure or exhaust participants.", "Large crowds create stampede and crowd safety risks." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989, United Nations, which protects children from harmful work and forced participation." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Mass games are staged in stadiums, arenas and large public spaces for festivals, ceremonies and civic or national celebrations.", "They combine synchronized movement, group formations and sometimes card displays to create images and patterns visible to a large audience.", "Production planning coordinates rehearsals, participant movements, timing and viewing positions across large groups." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1140660: mass games", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1140660", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Mass games", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_games", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-performance-boundaries", "name": "Identity and performance boundaries", "description": "Establishes which collective display is being modelled and why it qualifies as mass games.", "rationale": "A title, large headcount or national association alone cannot reliably identify the practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-and-local-usage", "name": "Recognition and local usage", "description": "Tests the performance form alongside the terminology used by organisers and observers.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-classification", "name": "Basis for classification", "description": "Record evidence of organised ensemble movement and distinguish the proposed classification from local naming.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed features make collective gymnastic or related movement the organising principle of this display?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Who calls it mass games, and what adjacent practices does that usage include or exclude?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "production-and-segment-boundaries", "name": "Production and segment boundaries", "description": "Separates a recurring production from its editions, performances and components within larger events.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-continuity", "name": "Instance continuity", "description": "Record which sequence constitutes the instance and how revisions or repeat performances relate to it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe an entire mass-games production or a qualifying segment within a larger ceremony?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "instance-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in choreography, cast or commissioned theme establish a new edition rather than another performance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "instance-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ensemble-choreography-and-images", "name": "Ensemble choreography and images", "description": "Captures how individual positions and movements combine into a legible collective display.", "rationale": "The model must represent the formations and transitions that make the ensemble more than a list of performers.", "layers": [ { "id": "formations-and-transitions", "name": "Formations and transitions", "description": "Records spatial assignments, movement paths and dependencies between successive tableaux.", "findings": [ { "id": "formation-executability", "name": "Formation executability", "description": "Record whether cohorts can reach their assigned positions within the available time and space.", "questions": [ { "text": "What positions, spacing and routes are assigned to each cohort in this transition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "formation-executability-q01" }, { "text": "Which formations require revision if a cohort is absent or cannot complete its route?", "kind": 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"layers": [ { "id": "recruitment-and-performer-agency", "name": "Recruitment and performer agency", "description": "Records how people enter, remain in and leave performance cohorts.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-and-withdrawal-evidence", "name": "Participation and withdrawal evidence", "description": "Distinguish formal recruitment claims from documented participant experiences, including conditions affecting children where relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "How were performers recruited, and what evidence establishes their ability to decline or withdraw?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "participation-and-withdrawal-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Who can remove or reassign a performer needing assistance, including a child where applicable?", "kind": "action", "id": "participation-and-withdrawal-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "load-exits-and-interruption", "name": "Load, exits and interruption", "description": "Relates repeated movement and static holds to support, exit routes 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"reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is inferred from the conventional term for collective gymnastic spectacles; no registry definition was supplied.", "The listed kinds are overlapping performance forms, not a universal formal classification.", "Participant totals, compulsory participation and training conditions require verification for each production; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of mass games this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web 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"evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of mass games this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Number of participants", "typical_range": "Large productions can involve thousands to tens of thousands; there is no fixed numerical threshold.", "unit": "people" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of mass games this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Timing or positioning errors that disrupt formations and composite images", "Overuse injuries and fatigue from prolonged, repetitive rehearsal", "Heat illness or dehydration during outdoor rehearsal and performance", "Crowd congestion and evacuation difficulties involving large participant groups", "Coercion or excessive training demands where participation is compulsory, particularly for children" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of mass games this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "North Korea is particularly associated with mass games combining gymnastics, dance and large card-stunt backgrounds, including the Arirang productions.", "Central and Eastern European traditions include Sokol gatherings and Spartakiads with mass gymnastics displays; these events can also include activities beyond mass games.", "Comparable collective gymnastics displays occur in international gymnastics festivals, although local terminology and political purposes differ." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of mass games this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Competitive gymnastics", "difference": "Competitive gymnastics ranks performances under scoring rules; mass games primarily produce a coordinated collective display." }, { "name": "Card stunt", "difference": "A card stunt creates an image through coordinated card handling and can be one component of mass games or a separate spectator activity." }, { "name": "Military parade", "difference": "A military parade centers on the ceremonial presentation of military personnel and equipment; mass games center on choreographed physical and visual performance." }, { "name": "Sports opening ceremony", "difference": "An opening ceremony is defined by its role in inaugurating an event; mass games describe a performance form that may appear within such a ceremony." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of mass games this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.mass-games intend the broad mass-gymnastics performance family or a narrower tradition associated with particular countries or organisers?", "Which established definitions distinguish mass games from gymnastics festivals, stadium ceremonies and coordinated dance displays without imposing an arbitrary participant threshold?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which production records and performer accounts can substantiate actual rehearsal, cueing, withdrawal and interruption practices across different traditions?", "How should hybrid productions combining competition, procession, human imagery and collective gymnastics be bounded without creating duplicate models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }