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

As the year draws to a close, so too does the seventh artistic programme of If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. Since 2017, the art organisation was working with artists Mounira Al Solh, keyon gaskin, Myriam Lefkowitz, and Charlotte Prodger on the production of new work commissions, and Rhea Anastas and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez on major new research projects. While each has followed an individual trajectory of development, in November they will present these together as a month-long programme of live performances, experiential situations, screenings, and discursive events, which unfold at various venues in Amsterdam.

Complementing these presentations is a thematic inquiry into the notion of ‘Social Movement’, which has been explored concurrently through a series of reading groups. During the upcoming programme this inquiry is extended with a keynote lecture, a series of radio broadcasts, and a library of reading.

A gathering of three performances and video poems with keyon gaskin and friends takes place on 30 November at the Bijlmer Parktheatre. Titled NASHA, the event centres and values black sociality and resists creating something “new” by stipulation, giving context through experience.

Please visit the website here to see the full programme.