IF I CAN’T DANCE

READING AND CONVERSATION

Poetry After Barbarism

Jennifer Scappettone with Mia You and Sara Giannini

Thursday 22 May 2025, 20.30hr

If I Can’t Dance, WG-Plein 881, Amsterdam

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Conversation and Performance

The Word and the Wound – And Now You Are Ready to Sing

Frédérique Bergholtz, Anna Buyvid, Anik Fournier, Nada Gambier, Sara Giannini, Patrick Freriksen, Agnese Krivade, Bel McLaughlin, Snejanka Mihaylova, Lisa Montan, Javier Rodriguez Perez, Alva Roselius, Hannah van der Schaaf, Agnese Spolverini, and Mia Tamme

Friday 23 May, 17-19hr

If I Can’t Dance, WG-Plein 881, Amsterdam

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A group of people sits in a half-circle on a blue-and-white patterned tiled floor in a historic space with stone columns and carpets along the walls; painted cloths hang above.

Interdisciplinary Performance Programme

Voice as Landscape

Kaixin Chen & Sankrit Kulmanochawong, Aitana Cordero, Kike García & Jesús Bravo, María Jerez & Élan D’Orphium, Phantom Wizard

Curated by: Alec Mateo and Lorenzo García-Andrade

Saturday 24 May, 16.30–23hr

Emmaplein & If I Can’t Dance, WG-Plein 881, Amsterdam

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Education

17 years of If I Can’t Dance COOPS at the Dutch Art Institute

COOPS led by Tanja Baudoin, Phil Collins, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Jon Mikel Euba, Sara Giannini, Susan Gibb, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Snejanka Mihaylova, Sarah Pierce, Rory Pilgrim, Jimmy Robert, Stefanie Seibold, Hito Steyerl, Ian White, Geo Wyex, and Arnisa Zeqo

A wealth of material – including texts, documentation, and syllabi –
is now available on our website

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