Lab Brazil: Parquear Bando digital annotation: on digital scores for collective performance interventions in public spaces

Parquear Bando is an urban intervention designed for up to 20 people to perform in urban city centres. While describing this urban intervention and analysing parts of the material available in the online pilot publication, we will discuss the limits and potentialities of a digitization process for this improvised performance. We question whether it would be possible to use digital annotations as support for future performances of this collective action without the physical presence of its facilitators but still maintaining the main concerns and principles of Parquear Bando. The three-day workshop shares the intervention’s most common structure and composes a performance to be shown in a selected place of each city. During the Motion Bank Lab Brazil 2019, we started to create a digital archive for the workshop with the aim of finding a consistent documentation model using video annotations, recording interviews and digitizing some of the choreographers’ notebooks. Beyond the digital archive of this urban intervention, we are also interested in making the score and movement principles of this piece available to other groups who could perform Parquear Bando in different contexts.