IF
I
CAN’T
DANCE,
IF
I
CAN’T
DANCE,
I DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION

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.

CONTACT

 

If I Can’t Dance,
I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

WG-Plein 881

1054 SM Amsterdam

The Netherlands

T: +31(0)618742165

 

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General inquiries: office@ificantdance.org

Press: press@ificantdance.org

Team members:
[initials]@ificantdance.org

 

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OPENING HOURS

 

For dates and times of our events please visit the programme pages.

 

The library and archive are open by appointment on Wednesdays. Please write an email to Anik Fournier, af@ificantdance.org.

 

The library, archive and office are on the second floor and unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, please get in touch with us via office@ificantdance.org for assistance.

 

DIRECTIONS

 

If I Can’t Dance is located near the art space Punt WG, on WG Plein 881, across from a big playground. Sometimes Google Maps directs you to the back entrance on Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat. If that is the case, get directions to WG Plein 881.

LIBRARY

 

The If I Can’t Dance library is a research hub for performance practices within the field of visual arts, with an emphasis on feminist, queer and marginalised voices, histories and methodologies.

 

Our holdings have grown in tandem with our artist commissions, research projects and fields of inquiries since 2005. Scholarly material, monographs, exhibition catalogues and creative writing accompany special collections of scores, scripts, sound, video and film work, and the full range of If I Can’t Dance publications.

 

The library dedicated to performance is a site of interface with the public, designed with Maud Vervenne as a lively space of textured encounters and continuous cross-pollinations. Within the shelves is a display unit where we, and invited guests, play with intimately scaled thematic exhibitions that revisit the collection and archive.

TEAM

 

Marcel van den Berg
Communications and Studio

 

Frédérique Bergholtz
Artistic and General Director

 

Naomi Collier Broms
Archive and Research Assistant

 

Sancha Meca Castro
Publications Assistant

 

Anik Fournier
Archive and Research Curator

 

Sara Selvaggia Giannini
Programme Curator

 

Mini Maxwell
Open Rehearsal Curator

 

Hans Schamlé
Financial Advisor

 

FELLOWS

 

Devika Chotoe
Fellow Edition IX, Bodies and Technologies (2022-23)

 

Giulia Damiani
Fellow Edition XIII, Ritual and Display (2019-21)

 

TUTORS

 

Snejanka Mihaylova and Rory Pilgrim
Tutors Dutch Art Institute’s COOP study group On Tradition – Future Ancestors 3: The Mother, The Archival and The Symbolic Order (2022-23)), On Tradition – Future Ancestors 2: Rurality and Law (2021-22) and On Tradition – Future Ancestors 1: let rhythm be your guiding light (2020-21)

 

AFFILIATED

 

Janine Armin

Copy editing

 

Edina and Vanessa Bonin

Office maintenance

 

Frank Abbing

Financial administration

 

Annick Kleizen

Accessibility policy

 

Kommerz

Design and web development ificantdance.studio

 

Nicolien Luttels, Karin Sommerer, Femke Theuws

HR policy

 

Maud Vervenne

Graphic design

SUPERVISORY BOARD

 

Mounira Al Solh

 

Ulrike Erbslöh

Treasurer

 

Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes

Chair

 

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

 

If I Can’t Dance and the Supervisory Board comply with the Cultural Governance Code.

SUPPORT

 

If I Can’t Dance is financially supported by the Mondriaan Fund, the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts), Het Cultuurfonds, and Ammodo.

 

   
     

 

MEMBERSHIP GROUPS

 

If I Can’t Dance is member of De Zaak Nu, Moker and Europaplatform.

 

If I Can’t Dance’s is part of Atelier WG.

 

ANBI

 

If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is a non-profit foundation with ANBI status in the Netherlands.

 

Commercial Register KVK: 34287147

 

RSIN/ANBI: 8186797

 

VAT Identification Number: NL818679748 B01

 

IBAN: NL66INGB0005022462

 

Financial Statement 2023

Annual Report 2022
Annual Report 2021
Annual Report 2020

COLOPHON

 

Design: Will Holder

Web development: atelier Arthur Haegeman

Hosting: Webtic

Editing: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

 

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