PARTNER 2022-2023 ~ If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam) ~ partner since 2008
If I Can't Dance is a production house devoted to exploring performance and performativity in all its manifestations
"Established in 2005, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is an art organisation dedicated to exploring the evolution and typology of performance and performativity in contemporary art. We do this through the development, production, and presentation of commissioned projects with artists, curators, and researchers on the basis of long-term collaboration and support.
On a day-to-day basis we operate out of a production office in Amsterdam, using the flexibility it provides us to move and adapt, as each production requires. We present our projects through an ever-evolving network of partner institutions in the Netherlands and abroad, creating the conditions for each project to have a meaningful trajectory of presentations, and for diverse audiences to have access to these.
We aim to approach performance through an understanding of it as an inherently interdisciplinary form, and produce work that ranges from live performance to film to installations. Uniting our projects is a critical consideration of space, time, and the body (in all of its manifestations). Through our programme of commissions we aim to support practitioners at pivotal stages in their career, and to represent intergenerational, international, and intersectional positions."
In the DAI courses tutored by If I Can't Dance , artists collaborate with If I Can’t Dance’s curators and lead the workshop from the position of their own performance practices towards the development of an artistic project by the students.
Invited artist tutors include, among others: Snejanka Mihaylova, Rory Pilgrim, Sara Giannini, Geo Wyeth, Arnisa Zeqo, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Jon Mikel Euba, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Gerry Bibby, Sara van der Heide, Emily Roysdon, Ian White, Emma Hedditch, Jimmy Robert, Myriam Van Imschoot, Phil Collins, Hito Steyerl, Sarah Pierce and Stefanie Seibold.
If I Can't Dance@DAI:
On Tradition - Future Ancestors 3: The Mother, The Archival and The Symbolic Order
On Tradition - Future Ancestors 2: Rurality and Law
On Tradition – Future Ancestors: let rhythm be your guiding light
Sotto Voce: Tactics, Signals and Slips of Desire.
The Immemorial Body: Betraying Carmelo Bene in Nine Acts.
Occupation, Evacuation and Transmission
Meditation by Doreen Mende on the group performance 'What Would Be Good'