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 performance and performativity as forms of social and political imagination. After many years of operating nomadically, we are now based at the “Collegezaal" on the WG-terrein in Amsterdam Oud-West. The space—formerly the medical theatre of the Women’s Clinic of the Wilhelmina Gasthuis—is a designated “Rijksmonument" with a complex history and distinctive architecture that informs our ongoing research and programming.

Working in collaboration with artists, researchers, activist groups, and practitioners across disciplines, we develop programmes that engage urgent social questions through artistic practice. Activities range from commissioned projects and performances to workshops, seminars, reading groups, and community-led gatherings. Across all our work, we remain committed to engaging with our historical, material, and political context through experimentation with embodied knowledge, pedagogy, and performance-based research methodologies.

In addition to our public programme, we maintain a library and archive open to anyone interested in performance within the visual arts, with a focus on feminist, queer, and otherwise marginalised perspectives, histories, and practices.

Access note
The theatre space, library, archive, and office are located on the second floor and are unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.


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