DIGITAL
PLATFORM
The iCoDaCo Digital Platform is a pan-European virtual space designed for the contemporary dance community, supporting collective co-creation, hybrid distribution, and open access knowledge exchange.
The platform offers a custom-built environment tailored to the needs of dance practitioners today. It hosts a growing repository of texts, audio, and video materials, making choreographic knowledge and dance-making practices freely accessible to all.
While expanding possibilities for international collaboration and learning through digital channels, the platform remains grounded in the physical nature of dance, encouraging artists to translate shared knowledge into their own embodied practices.
Score Manual
This document presents the artistic outcome of the 15 residency weeks with all of the European collectives.
In each residency week, the iCoDaCo artists negotiated their artistic position of fundamental elements when making a choreography or performance of contemporary dance. For the end of each residency the artists compiled and articulated their ideas and practices to be shared with all other artists. On Saturdays, these elements, like collective decision making, themes or costumes, were presented, played with and discussed in online meetings among representatives of all the 10 collectives. In response to the discussions and deliberations, the Encompassing Collective tried to summarize and grasp the shared interests and crucial common concepts between the artists.
These concepts were formed into a preliminary written prompt, question, task or invitation as score or manual for performance making. In the last residency the collectives were asked to critically review and test the proposed preliminary score as well as to propose alternative entries.
The annotated score of the Encompassing Collective along with the distinct proposed alternative pathways were merged for the score/manual that you find below. The following manifesto is a collective written proposal of what we understand as a score and how we believe it should be used.
