With John Cage's thinking on the status of musical notation as a point of departure and inspired by Anna Halprin's method for the composition of dance scores, we have developed an internet site for the generation of dance scores. The scores generated with this tool may be used as practical suggestions for choreographers and anyone interested in motion and gesture. The user inputs parameters including, among others, the number of dancers and the type of space used. A "generating" algorithm developed for the purposes of this project searches through a database of graphic signs, texts, and heterogeneous indications to compose in real-time a dance score that can be interpreted and performed by anyone. The user retains the rights to the work created with this text.

 under-score is grounded in a series of questions revolving around research in the field of dance. One never stages a dance performance from a score –– what does it mean to compose from a dance score? How can one use the written score as a point of departure to explore motion? The author of a score is usually the author of the work: what does it mean to create scores while foregoing authorship of the work? A score is conceived as the guarantor of the identity of a work beyond all of its performative variants: what, then, is a score that lends itself to being "betrayed?" To what extent is this even a score at all?