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
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.
ACCESSIBILITY
Our theatre-space, library, archive and office are on the second floor and unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
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.
TEAM
Marcel van den Berg
Digital strategy and Studio
Frédérique Bergholtz
Artistic and General Director
Sancha Meca Castro
Assistant book distribution and space management
Anik Fournier
Archive and Research Curator
Sara Selvaggia Giannini
Programme 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)
EDUCATION
Frédérique Bergholtz and Angelo Custodio
Dutch Art Institute COOP Tutors
Eva Posas
Head MA Sandberg Instituut
AFFILIATED
Janine Armin
Copy editing
Frank Abbing
Financial administration
Annick Kleizen
Curator access: practices and habits
Mini Maxwell
Open Rehearsal Curator
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.
FUNDING
If I Can’t Dance is structurally supported by the Mondriaan Fund.
The project access: practices and habits is supported by Creative Europe
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
Annual Report 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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