iCoDaCo

International Contemporary Dance Collective (iCoDaCo) 2024-2027 is co-funded by the European Union. Through collective processes with over 60 artists, it addresses creating and disseminating contemporary dance in response to the social, political and environmental challenges of the 21st century.

iCoDaCo 2024-2027 is dedicated to developing and implementing methodologies for creating and disseminating contemporary dance in order to improve the reality and opportunities available for artists, producers, presenters, communities, and audiences of contemporary dance in Europe and beyond.

The project involves 60 contemporary dance artists from 11 countries across the pan-European region and it is co-funded by the European Union. Through collective processes, the artists will articulate knowledge, develop methodologies, and suggest practices to guarantee the improvement of sustainability, accessibility, and innovation within and beyond the contemporary dance field. The project hopes to revolutionise how we perceive contemporary dance practices and respond to the environmental, social, political, and economic realities of the 21st century. We imagine new ways of working internationally while lowering the strain on our environment and but at the same time not jeopardising the physical and live aspects of contemporary. We prioritise democratising knowledge and decentralising power as means for expanded connectivity.

The project acknowledges artistic practice as expertise. It reclaims contemporary dance artists' right to be indicators of the ways in which the art form evolves rather than only yielding to the demands of governmental policies or academic institutions. iCoDaCo 2024-2027 will develop the world’s first digital, multi-format, open-access platform for practice-based contemporary dance knowledge sharing. The platform will be designed to serve as a support tool to any artist worldwide with internet access who wants to develop and/or enhance their artistic practice internationally free of excessive travelling or having to digitalise the actual practice.