Departing from investigations of theatricality and the live moment (Edition I, 2005) and of the legacies and potentials of feminism in contemporary art practice (Edition II, 2006-2008), Edition III (2008-2010) focuses on the notion of the masquerade.

Keren Cytter, Jon Mikel Euba, Olivier Foulon, Suchan Kinoshita, Joachim Koester and Sarah Pierce are invited to produce new projects with If I Can’t Dance that are developed within the time frame of two years, and are presented at subsequent moments at the Overgaden arts centre in Copenhagen; Sala Rekalde in Bilbao; Project Arts Centre in Dublin; and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

In addition, If I Can’t Dance presents its new series If I Can’t Dance Tonight, hosted by Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam. The events within this series are organised on a monthly basis, and both contextualize the practices of the artists that go with us on tour, and articulate the field of research central to Edition III by commissioning live performances.