counter-scores

Counter-Scores is a choreographic counter-map: a collection of choreographies and memories that resist the official history of a district or a building. The score is composed of fragments of conversations with people living in modernist housing blocks. It explores the revolutionary potential of everyday, grassroots dances that exist outside politics of visibility. In historical accounts of dance, whose dancing bodies are remembered, and whose are forgotten? Why are the memories of some dances preserved, while others disappear from the pages of history?

Space is never neutral. Through power of space, biopolitics governs populations, organizing them within modernist housing blocks where countless identities and experiences remain outside dominant narratives of success. This choreographic simulation hacks this logic of value. Exploring the intersystemic sense of stagnation, the score asks to be forgotten. At some point in history, we will all be erased. Time will pass, and people will forget us, our faces and voices. Everything we love and fear, our bodies and dances, will disappear. So let us disappear - but in the meantime, let us dance with memory.

The choreographer uses the potential of quotes as a dance score - understood in choreographic notation as an open system of instructions, suggestions, frameworks, impulses, rules, or proposals for movement. In doing so, he situates himself within an eternal movement among ignored and invisible dances, suspended between past regimes (whether communism or other oppressive systems) and the future. The performance does not attempt to restore forgotten dances to the dominant archive. Instead, it explores invisibility as a poetic shift, revealing a soothing and hidden resemblance between people. These dances - dispersed through the memories of shopkeepers, teachers, administrative workers, sex workers, theatre makers - infects the rhetoric of ‚I am part of the mass, therefore I lose’ searching instead for the hope that, in being forgotten, one might become part of something greater than oneself.