In each residency week, the iCoDaCo artists negotiated their artistic position of fundamental elements when making a choreography or performance of contemporary dance. At the end of each week, the artists compiled and articulated their ideas and practices to be shared with all other artists, and uploaded them as contributions to the Digital Platform. Elements like collective decision-making, time, 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.